casuistry (n.)

• aesthetics
• apologetics
• apologia
• apology
• argument
• argumentation
• axiology
• bicker
• bickering
• circularity
• contention
• controversy
• cosmology
• deception
• deceptiveness
• defense
• delusion
• disingenuousness
• disputation
• dispute
• distortion
• empiricism
• emptiness
• epistemology
• equivocalness
• equivocation
• ethics
• ethology
• evolutionism
• fallaciousness
• fallacy
• hassle
• hedonism
• hollowness
• hubbub
• insincerity
• intuitionism
• jesuitism
• jesuitry
• litigation
• logic
• logomachy
• metaphysics
• misapplication
• mockery
• mystification
• obfuscation
• obscurantism
• ontology
• perfectionism
• perversion
• phenomenology
• philosophy
• plausibility
• plausibleness
• polemic
• polemics
• rationalization
• rhubarb
• set-to
• sophism
• sophistication
• sophistry
• speciousness
• spuriousness
• subtlety
• utilitarianism
• wrangling