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 →

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 →

note

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Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sophistical» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.