Usage examples (14)

• They learned how to reason by using the logical system of rabbinical debate included in the Talmud’s pages, called in Yiddish pilpul.
• I believe that Yaffe's vanishingly-fine distinction would qualify as a good example of Talmudic pilpul.
• I did, indeed, write that Talmudic scholars were more aggressive in their pilpul than scientists, but it is Dorn, not I, who regards that as "singing the praises" of the...
• It's as if he were fully embracing the uncertainty principle of modern physics, but there's something of the Talmudic pilpul at work here, too.