Difference between Precise and Hairsplitting

PRECISE vs HAIRSPLITTING: NOUN

Making too fine distinctions of little importance
The making of unreasonably fine distinctions.
The act or practice of making sophistical or over-nice distinctions in reasoning.
The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae.

Conforming strictly to rule or proper form.
Distinct and correct in sound or meaning.
Strictly distinguished from others; very.
Exact, as in performance, execution, or amount; accurate or correct.
Clearly expressed or delineated; definite.
Sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal.
Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.
Exact, accurate
Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct

Exact in conduct or requirements; strict; punctilious; express; formal; over-exact or over-scrupulous; prim; precisian; also, conformed to over-scrupulous requirements.
Specifically, Puritan; puritanical.
In logic, containing nothing superfiuous.
Synonyms Accurate, Correct, Exact, etc. (see accurate), distinct, express.
Stiff, ceremonious.
Being just what it purports or is alleged to be, and not something else; particular.
Exactly stated, defined, marked off, or measured, etc.; strictly expressed, stated, etc.
Definite; exact; neither more nor less than; just, with no error.
Containing or committing no error: as, a precise measurement; measuring or reckoning with extreme exactness, so as to reduce the errors in an unusual degree: as, a precise instrument or operator.
Strictly correct
Precisely; exactly.

Making sophistical or over-nice distinctions in reasoning; also, made by such reasoning.

Finespun, Dead, Nice, Fine, Very, Hairsplitting, Right, Microscopic, Punctilious, Skillful, Correct, Meticulous, Pinpoint, Accurate, Exact

Irrelevancies, Legalese, Sophistic, Verbiage, Casuistry, Sophist, Circumlocution, Prolixity, Disputation, Argumentation, Sophistry, Pedantry, Word splitting, Finespun, Precise

Finespun, Dead, Nice, Fine, Very, Hairsplitting, Right, Microscopic, Punctilious, Skillful, Correct, Meticulous, Pinpoint, Accurate, Exact

Dissembling, Caviling, Semantics, Irrelevancies, Legalese, Sophistic, Casuistry, Sophist, Circumlocution, Prolixity, Argumentation, Sophistry, Pedantry, Finespun, Precise

Old Testament has a precise and consistent meaning.
The precise time of this section is uncertain.
Your sentences should be clear, precise and impactful.
Communication between divisions is professional, quick, and precise.
If you do, it might need precise interpretation.
On Notes and Creating a Precise Meeting Report.
PC will allow you to be more precise.
It is rigorously precise and easy to use.
Use precise figures When negotiating, use precise numbers rather than figures rounded to the nearest thousand.
That yields precise footwear for the precise man or woman.

What applies to an agreement in rem must also apply to an agreement in contract anything else would be legal hairsplitting.
We did not design our exercises to shake out a grade or make hairsplitting distinctions between a good and a better answer.
Instead, he explains using masterful hairsplitting, the new money will come from savings the agency derived from refinancing bonds.
Will not see style hairsplitting, At this point regrettably let's wait and watch: He.
Such hairsplitting argumentation has no place in an inquiry addressed to the issue of reasonableness.
The Mahu0101yu0101na philosophical schools became increasingly preoccupied with abstruse theoretical issues and hairsplitting polemics.
And any hairsplitting ed or unformed is inadmissible with us.