the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > frivolous, captious objection (49)
Subcategories:
— [noun] (27)
— [adjective] (8)
— [adverb] (3)
— raise captiously [verb (intransitive)] (7)
— treat captiously [verb (transitive)] (4)