الْحِكْمَةُ الْمُمَوَّهَةُ
Wisdom that only appears genuine but is deceptive.
The text associates “sophistry” with apparent wisdom that masks confusion or misleading argument. Not everyone who asks questions or challenges a proof is therefore a sophist. Responsible inquiry tests evidence; radical sophistry here denotes a stance that rejects the possibility of establishing any truth.
The central conclusion is that real sensory errors and theoretical disagreements do not by themselves make knowledge impossible. They instead prompt closer examination of sources, conditions and valid methods of inference.
The next independent unit begins with أَسْبَابُ الْعِلْمِ, the causes or routes of knowledge and the meaning of knowledge itself.