hairsplitting

Hair"split`ting, a. Defn: Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n. Defn: The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading. Charles Sumner.

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