logic-choppingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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" .

名詞

logic-chopping (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) The practice of engaging in excessively subtle, pedantic, or specious argumentation; the use of overly fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning .
   • 1846, Merry England, page 234:

     Contemptuous logic-chopper "sophist, person who uses subtle distinctions in argument" .

   • 1931, Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist:

     Let the Almighty step in and arrange things in a proper way. No more logic-chopping!

同意語

• chop logic
• casuistry
• sophistry
• quibbling

関連する語

• logic-chopper
• chop-logic