The incipit of a piece from the (Virginia Tech) Collegiate Times:

I struggled with what to write this week’s column about. I find the topic I inevitably chose comes from a “Sophical” argument held in my political theory course.

The Sophical argument refers to the type of argument Sophocles would take part in, one in which he limits himself from giving any opinion but rather attempts to confuse the people arguing against him until they begin to question what they formerly believed.


I've never seen the word 'sophical' connected to Sophocles before ... the above looks like someone is confusing 'sophical' with 'sophist', no?