chop logic (?.)

• analyze
• anatomize
• argue
• argufy
• around the bush
• atomize
• bandy words
• beat about
• beg the question
• bicker
• boggle
• cavil
• change
• choplogic
• contend
• contest
• cross swords
• cut and thrust
• desynonymize
• difference
• differentiate
• discept
• discriminate
• disequalize
• disjoin
• dispute
• distinguish
• diversify
• divide
• dodge
• equivocate
• evade
• evade the issue
• fence
• give and take
• hassle
• have it out
• hedge
• individualize
• individuate
• join issue
• lock horns
• logomachize
• make a distinction
• mark
• mark off
• mark out
• modify
• moot
• mystify
• nitpick
• obscure
• palter
• parry
• particularize
• personalize
• pettifog
• pick nits
• plead
• polemicize
• polemize
• prevaricate
• pussyfoot
• quibble
• refine a distinction
• segregate
• separate
• set apart
• set off
• sever
• severalize
• shift
• shuffle
• shy
• sidestep
• spar
• specialize
• split hairs
• take sides
• tergiversate
• thrash out
• try conclusions
• vary
• wrangle