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Fisking is a written argument where one person sequentially addresses each point of an of another person's argument. This is done in a precise manner relying on semantics and ambiguities to infer a defect in the original point. This approach is tantamount to taking a sentence out of context in order to refute an entire argument. Fisking does not pay heed to the opponent's thesis as a whole, and thus does not disprove the thesis as a whole.
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