Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Quibbling or sophistical reasoning. See
to chop logic , under chop, transitive verb
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Examples
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While the logic-chopping about possible inoffensive meanings is all very well, the odds that that was what students in an American high school were up to are vanishingly small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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Kay, with his lighter-than-air touch, offers a broader critique that views Krugman and Cochrane, Deepwater and Freshwater, as part of the same logic-chopping species: worshippers at the altar of consistency and undoubtedly of confirmation bias, too.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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While the logic-chopping about possible inoffensive meanings is all very well, the odds that that was what students in an American high school were up to are vanishingly small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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Kay, with his lighter-than-air touch, offers a broader critique that views Krugman and Cochrane, Deepwater and Freshwater, as part of the same logic-chopping species: worshippers at the altar of consistency and undoubtedly of confirmation bias, too.
Robert Teitelman: Appreciating John Kay Robert Teitelman 2011
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While the logic-chopping about possible inoffensive meanings is all very well, the odds that that was what students in an American high school were up to are vanishingly small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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While the logic-chopping about possible inoffensive meanings is all very well, the odds that that was what students in an American high school were up to are vanishingly small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo? 2010
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Since the rest of your post is just a bunch of squirming, wiggling, logic-chopping gibberish, it merely serves to underline your hilarious orginal screw-up of failing to qualify the sense of 'necessitated' properly.
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Since the rest of your post is just a bunch of squirming, wiggling, logic-chopping gibberish
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How far superior is all this to the cut-and-dried logic-chopping, the cold analysis to the eighteenth century! — ‘The Novel,’ say sententiously, ‘is the Epic grown amusing.’
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So the distinction might seem like logic-chopping, especially if you're black, well-qualified and jobless.
The Achievement Gap Tim Harford 2007
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