On: On Casuistry

[techbio]

Merriam-Webster puts the two definitions in the other order, but clearly this is a contentious terrain:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/casuistry

[throw0101a → techbio]

Definition (2) was the original one, and the one that is at the top:

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry

Definition (1) is what the critics of the Jesuits applied to the technique during the 1600s, and what seems to have been carried forward in the general use of the word.

This is/was a pretty good overview of the technique through ages:

* https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520069602/the-abuse-of-casu...

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/954645.The_Abuse_of_C...

Old review:

* https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/293127