chop logic

He did not attack Lamachos, but war’s representative; not Cleon, but flattery of the populace; not Socrates, but the pernicious seed of sophistry, whereby youth was perverted to chop logic and worship whirligig.

Therefore, as common sense cannot be used in any sense on this question, as it is utterly useless in the present state of affairs to attempt to "chop logic" with "raps," and their mediums upon such tables as these, it will be here quite in place to talk a little nonsense.

"Oh! you chop logic!" cried the angry brute.

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

He ceased his prophecy, and began to argue, to reason, to chop logic, which was not by any means so interesting.