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Explanatory Statements – The Theory Of Why, Aharon Grenadir
Explanatory Statements – The Theory Of Why, Aharon Grenadir
School for Lifelong Education Publications
The author explains what explanatory statements are, focusing on examples in Jewish texts.
The Logic Of Concessive Statements, Aharon Grenadir
The Logic Of Concessive Statements, Aharon Grenadir
School for Lifelong Education Publications
Concessive statements appear frequently in everyday reasoning. They are one of the eleven types of statement mentioned in the Ramchal‟s Sefer Derech Tevunos. In addition, in Talmudic discussions, every statement has a presupposition (hava-amina) and a conclusion (ka mashma lan). This goal of this research is to organize the categorizations of concessive statements that are stated in the technical literature. Using the distintinction in lomdus between dechiyah (overriding a law) and hutrah (removal of a law), a novel categorization can be added, according to the type of denial of the expectation by the main clause. That is the subject of …
Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy
Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy
Touro College Libraries Publications and Research
The author reviews the book New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought.