A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.
The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
A person who performs any such trick.
The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.