hårklyveri — meaning in English
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English meaning
- sophistry noun The actions or arguments of a sophist.
Senses
hårklyveri is used for these senses in English:
- hair-splitting (idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
- sophistry (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
- split hairs (idiomatic) Tedious details; minutiae.
- split hairs (idiomatic) To consider or argue about fine details; to worry about minutiae.
sophistry — full definition
- noun The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- noun Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
- noun An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.