EDITOR@WORK: April 2024

FOUND IN A MOVIE: I heard an unfamiliar word, casuistry, and looked it up.

MEANING: In ethics, casuistry is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances. [1] This method occurs in applied ethics and jurisprudence.

I'm beginning to understand what that means. You're going from the specific to the general and back to other specifics.

Still, I can't see me using casuistry in a conversation.

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FOUND ON YOUTUBE: There was a transition in a Dan Blocker video that said Segway into Acting.

Generally, it's spelled segue.

According to the internet, segway is "a motorized personal vehicle consisting of two wheels mounted side by side beneath a platform that the rider stands on while holding on to handlebars, controlled by the way the rider distributes their weight."

A segue is "a transition from one role, state, or condition to another." I think that's the meaning the YouTube video meant.

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