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# sophistical

«sophistical» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Using clever but false arguments that seem true but are not** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Using clever but false arguments that seem true but are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sophistical/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Here Kalisch uses it to criticise the older commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah as twisting verses of Scripture with false reasoning.

### examples

- All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sophistical/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sophistical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sophistical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.