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Hairsplitting

adjective
1.
Developed in excessively fine detail.  Synonym: finespun.





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"Hairsplitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... do not for a moment believe that any physicist really believes this, or that any man accepts it as a common-sense doctrine—one which can be acted upon in daily life. It is mere philosophical sophistry and hairsplitting, and we must believe, as a matter of fact, that physical energy is really physical, and not ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington


Words linked to "Hairsplitting" :   distinction, precise, word-splitting, differentiation


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