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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

  1. noun The actions or arguments of a sophist.
  2. noun Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
  3. noun An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

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