Associations to the word «Pilpul»

Wiktionary

PILPUL, noun. Sophistry, hair-splitting, quibbling.
PILPUL, noun. (Judaism) Penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, especially in Talmudic study.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats