logic-chopping

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of engaging in excessively subtle, pedantic, or specious argumentation; the use of overly fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning . derogatory,uncountable
    — Contemptuous logic-chopper "sophist, person who uses subtle distinctions in argument" .

词形变化

logic chopping alternative

词源

From the phrase chop logic, attested from the early 16th century . The element chop originally meant "to bandy, exchange" (as in chop logic, i.e., to exchange logical arguments) . Later chop was wrongly understood as "to cut, split" .
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