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屁理屈；へ理屈 [sK] ；屁理窟 [sK]
【へりくつ】

[n]
▶ sophism
▶ chop logic
▶ far-fetched argument
▶ quibble
▶ cavil
▶ argument for argument's sake

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2540460 かばち 1. quibble

History:

5.	A 2022-08-14 11:26:07 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Adding sK/sk forms.
	Diff:	@@ -8,0 +9 @@ +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf> @@ -12 +13 @@ -<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
4.	A 2022-07-04 15:43:23 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Probably not necessary to display 屁理窟. HiddenForm へ理屈, 屁理窟
3.	A* 2022-07-04 03:50:38 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts \| 屁理屈　 \| 200,908 \| 86.5% \| \| へ理屈　 \| 11,751 \| 5.1% \| \| 屁理窟　 \| 235 \| 0.1% \| <- only in oukoku, it seems \| へりくつ \| 19,351 \| 8.3% \|
	Diff:	@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>屁理窟</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
2.	A 2018-05-31 06:47:22 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	ｇｇ５
1.	A* 2018-05-30 20:54:27 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij, 中辞典 G n-grams: 屁理屈 200908 へ理屈 11751
	Comments:	I think this is a little clearer. It's not just about frivolous complaining.
	Diff:	@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>へ理屈</keb> @@ -12,0 +16,2 @@ +<gloss>chop logic</gloss> +<gloss>far-fetched argument</gloss> @@ -14 +19 @@ -<gloss>hair-splitting</gloss> +<gloss>cavil</gloss> @@ -16,2 +20,0 @@ -<gloss>cavil</gloss> -<gloss>frivolous objections</gloss>

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