logic-chopping

"Getting to YES" を読んでいます。
In other ways, people--even those of similar background--are quite different. Some of us are outgoing, others shy; some verbal and logic-chopping, others more physical and emotive; some people are blunt, others more indirect and tactful; some relish conflict, others will do almost anything to avoid it.
"logic-chopping" とは如何にも論旨がめちゃめちゃな人を連想します。
・Collins Dictionary: British pejorative: the use of excessively subtle argument ⇒ This is philosophy as Plato intended, not the dry logic-chopping of academic journals.
・Oxford English Dictionary: [mass noun] The practice of engaging in excessively pedantic argument.: this was logic chopping with a vengeance: His logic chopping proved little more than that it was logical.
とにかくごちゃごちゃと屁理屈をいうことの様です。