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What does "chop-logic" (chopped logic) mean?
Romeo and Juliet III.5:
"How now, how now, chop-logic!"
On each site I go I see a different explanation:
chopped logic (n.) contentious arguer, disputatious wretch
chopped logic = hair-splitting
chopp'd logic: illogical logic, shallow argument
I think the latter is more fitting.
Jul 21, 2011 9:44 PM
Answers · 2
Here 'chop logic' means one who bandies words or is very argumentative.
July 21, 2011
This is what I get: to reason or dispute argumentatively; draw unnecessary distinctions.
I guess it means to argue for the sake of arguing, with no real basis (logic).
July 21, 2011
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