Plural of casuistry; multiple examples of clever or deceptive reasoning used to justify questionable things.
From casuistry (the practice of casuist reasoning) pluralized to refer to multiple instances or types of such reasoning.
Philosophy students read casuistries from medieval theologians and are surprised how similar they are to modern internet arguments—humans have always been clever at justifying what they want to believe.
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