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.
An insistence on pure or unmixed forms.
An example of purist language etc.
The desire to use words and forms derived from what is considered the native element in a given language instead of elements considered borrowed or foreign.
An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things.