pedantry, sophistry, prolixity, argumentation, irrelevancies, circumlocution, semantics, caviling, dissembling, disputation, verbiage, doubletalk, sophist, ipse dixit, attitudinizing, indefiniteness, doublespeak, casuistry, textualism, logical fallacy, tautologies, textualist, obfuscation, logicians, nitpicking, disingenuity, vagary, literalism, polemics, split infinitive, demagoguery, illogic, journalese, disquisitions, charlatanry, commonplaces, dilettantism, ineffectuality, explications, incoherency, clownishness, absurdity, wrongheadedness, pedants, syllogisms, inanity, preambles, sophistic, gobbledygook, obtuseness, subjunctive, tendentiousness, mumbo jumbo, indirectness, vagueness, bafflegab, folderol, incommensurability, superfluity, wordiness, buncombe, gallimaufry, hyperbole, inexactitude, revisionism, technobabble, exculpation, picayune, speciesist, obiter dictum, legalese, legalism, mendacity, facetiousness, grammarians, caselaw, indeterminacy, monism, parsing, pusillanimity, pompousness, bloviation, antonym, incuriosity, prepositional phrase, didacticism, surplusage, dogmatist, obiter dicta, parti pris, presentism, boneheadedness, literalness, irreconcilability, prevarication, arguers, blatancy, officiousness, elide, doublethink, ambiguousness, monomania, quibbling, quibbles, niceties, nicety, quibble, subtleties, wrangling, disputations, sleight, wranglings, legerdemain, technicalities, confusions

differentiation, distinction

finespun, precise, word-splitting