Sentence:  If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “<WSD>hoked</WSD> up” with such things as "interest", "strength", and the like, which "do" exist, although only outside of these combinations. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.