Meaning of chop logic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry.
   uncountable
2. A logic chopper: one who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation.
   countable, obsolete

Examples

“Mere chop-logic!—you have nothing to say.”

“"Up in his ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable men."”

“How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds?”

“How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this? 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;' And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you, Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds, But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next.”

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