noun
- People who engage in petty or sophistic argumentation; those who quibble over trivial points or use fallacious reasoning.
Usage: archaic; usually plural; often used pejoratively
Examples
- The debate was filled with choplogics who refused to address the main issue.
- He dismissed his opponents as mere choplogics, more interested in wordplay than truth.
- The committee grew tired of the choplogics and their endless semantic disputes.
- Such choplogics waste everyone's time with their trivial objections.