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# sophistical

adjective

«sophistical» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

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

### Meaning

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

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sophistical/#x1)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sophistical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sophistical/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sophistical» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sophistical.html) on Mova free.