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Trivial objections (also
referred to as hair-splitting,
nothing but objections,
barrage of
objections and
banal objections) is an
informal logical fallacy...
-
colloquialism used by some to
indicate extreme dis****tion or
casuistic hairsplitting. The
requirement for
close derivation of the
conceptual structures underlying...
- the
comic play The Clouds,
Aristophanes criticizes the
sophists as
hairsplitting wordsmiths, and
makes Socrates their representative. Such criticism...
- (usually a servant), his
substitution of
speech for action, and his
moral hairsplitting.
Theatre of
ancient Rome "The
Oxford Companion to
classical Literature"...
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increasingly applied derogatorily to
novellae deemed casuistic and
hairsplitting.
Authors referred to
their own
commentaries as "al
derekh ha-peshat"...
- craft. To hang
around killing time in
pretentious conversation and
hairsplitting twaddle is the mark of a man who's lost his mind —Aristophanes, Frogs...
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parts are
usually understood to be
separate from each other. This is a
hairsplitting distinction. In
practice it
would be easy to
argue that if Ireland,...
- was
simply impatient with his
fellow academicians and
their endless hairsplitting over
matters that had no
relation to life. A vibrant,
generous person...
- the raids; The
Washington Post stated: "There is no time to
waste on
hairsplitting over [the]
infringement of liberty", and The New York
Times wrote that...
- traditions. One
scholar described this type of
sinology as "philological
hairsplitting"
preoccupied with
marginal or
curious aspects.
Secular scholars gradually...
