Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairsplittings
Literary usage of Hairsplittings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"I know the ornithologists, with their hairsplittings, or rather feather-splittings,
point out many differences, but they are unimportant. ..."
2. A Student's History of Education by Frank Pierrepont Graves (1915)
"... compare, abstract, and classify, and while scholasticism may have carried its
abstractions, hairsplittings, and scientific terminology to an extreme, ..."
3. A System of Ethics by Friedrich Paulsen, Frank Thilly (1899)
"Such exact calculations are, like the balance of pleasure, to be found only in
the works of moral theorists whose hairsplittings hinder them from seeing the ..."
4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"... part in the ability to take part in metaphysical discussions on subjects of
but little importance and in logical hairsplittings of no practical use. ..."
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