| 单词 | to chop logic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto chop logic a. transitive. To exchange or bandy words; esp. in to chop logic: to exchange logical arguments and terms, bandy logic, reason argumentatively, argue.In late use, often referred to chop v.1, as if ‘to mince’, divide minutely, ‘split hairs’, or ‘hash up’. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] to chop logic1528 to play the sophister?1550 Jesuit1601 casuist1643 special-plead1702 special-plead1848 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Aivv Wolde..That wyse Harpocrates Had your mouthes stopped..Whan ye Logyke chopped. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 21/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I You charge me..that I presume to chop Logike with you..by answering your snappish quid with a knappish quo. 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle i. sig. C3 Harke how hee chops logicke with his mother. 1659 J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catechetica 349 Bublings up of carnal reason against divine dispensations..which our English Proverb calls chopping Logick with God. 1661 J. Ussher Power of Princes (1683) ii. 142 What confusion would be brought..if a Son, or a Servant, or a Subject might have liberty to stand upon terms and chop Logick with his Father, Master, or Prince. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 40 A man must not presume to use his reason, unless he has studied the categories, and can chop logic by mode and figure. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 101 A bastard kind of Christianity..chopping barren logic merely! 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters ix Men chopping little familiar logic on one of the profoundest mysteries of Revelation. < as lemmas |
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