THESAURUS
logic chopping
bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, fencing, hairsplitting, hedging, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, pettifoggery, petty, picayune, prevarication, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping, subterfuge, tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial