of different texts Pilpul has entered English as a colloquialism used by some to indicate extreme disputation or casuistic hairsplitting.
Kaynak: Pilpul

neoclassicists adopted Seneca's innovation of the confidant (usually a servant), his substitution of speech for action, and his moral hairsplitting.
Kaynak: Senecan tragedy

For example, the comic playwright Aristophanes criticizes the sophists as hairsplitting wordsmiths, and makes Socrates their
Kaynak: Sophist