chop logic

No, that is chop-logic: for words are only transitory noises, whereas man is the child of God, and has an immortal spirit.

But she is temperate now, and I won't plague her; she shall chop logic, if she likes it, though she is a woman.'

With what forehead or face dost thou offer to chop logic with me, having run such a race of riot as thou hast done?

More, when was anything that mattered ever settled by chop-logic of the sort that set my head spinning?

You remember the absurd old bit of chop-logic often repeated in the classes of philosophy?