The term "sophistical" in literature is frequently employed to denote arguments or allegories that, while displaying an ostensible brilliance, ultimately reveal a deceptive or fallacious quality. For example, in Rabelais’s work the term critiques extravagant and misleading figurations ([1],[2]), and in Plutarch’s moral essays it marks a kind of reasoning that, although logical, betrays an inability to adhere to what is right ([3]). Rousseau dismisses such rhetoric as merely a brilliant yet insubstantial improvisation ([4]), while Plato’s discussions articulate the dismantling of sophistical constructs through refined analogies ([5],[6]). Similarly, later authors like Oscar Wilde and Inazo Nitobe invoke "sophistical" to describe arguments that, despite their artful display, ultimately lack genuine substance ([7],[8]). This layered use of "sophistical" captures its dual edge: admiration for rhetorical cleverness and skepticism about its true intellectual value.