Definition of "logic-chopping" [logic-chopping]

• Quibbling or sophistical reasoning. See to chop logic, under chop, transitive verb (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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."
• "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."
• "Since the rest of your post is just a bunch of squirming, wiggling, logic-chopping gibberish"