Logic in the Talmud
Subtitle: A Thematic Compilation
Publisher: Avi Sion
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781986752480
Table of contents: title: Foreword	6; title: 1.	A Fortiori in the Talmud	10; title: 1.	Brief history of a fortiori	10; title: 2.	A brief course in the relevant logic	17; title: 3.	A fresh analysis of Mishna Baba Qama 2:5	33; title: 4.	A logician’s reading of Numbers 12:14-15	59; title: 5.	A critique of the Gemara in Baba Qama 25a	67; title: 6.	A slightly different reading of the Gemara	90; title: 2.	More on A Fortiori in the Talmud	93; title: 1.	Natural, conventional or revealed?	93; title: 2.	Measure for measure	103; title: 3.	The dayo principle in formal terms	113; title: 4.	The human element	130; title: 5.	Qal vachomer without dayo	136; title: 6.	Three additional Gemara arguments	145; title: 7.	Assessment of the Talmud’s logic	168; title: 8.	The syllogistic Midot	179; title: 9.	Historical questions	185; title: 3.	Enumeration of A Fortiori Discourse	189; title: 1.	A fortiori discourse in the Mishna	189; title: 2.	A fortiori discourse in the two Talmuds	232; title: 4.	Post-Talmudic Commentaries	248; title: 1.	Logic and history issues	248; title: 2.	Sifra	251; title: 3.	The Korach arguments	258; title: 4.	Saadia Gaon	264; title: 5.	Rashi and Tosafot	268; title: 6.	Kol zeh assim	272; title: 7.	Maimonides	285; title: 8.	More on medieval authors	294; title: 9.	Moshe Chaim Luzzatto	304; title: 10.	More research is needed	312; title: 5.	A Fortiori in Certain Lexicons	315; title: 1.	The Jewish Encyclopedia	315; title: 2.	Encyclopaedia Judaica	319; title: 3.	Encyclopedia Talmudit	326; title: 6.	Initial Impressions on Method	330; title: 1.	Methods and contents	330; title: 2.	Davqa or lav-davqa?	340; title: 3.	Kushya and terutz	349; title: 4.	Standards of knowledge	354; title: 7.	Traditional Teachings	357; title: 1.	Hermeneutics	357; title: 2.	Heuristics	373; title: 3.	A methodical approach	383; title: 8.	The Thirteen Midot	390; title: 1.	Exposition and evaluation	390; title: 2.	Inference of Information	393; title: 3.	Scope of terms	414; title: 4.	Harmonization	422; title: 5.	Diagrams for the Midot	463; title: 9.	The Sinai Connection	476; title: 1.	Verdict on rabbinic hermeneutics	476; title: 2.	Artificial blocks to natural development of the law	489; title: 3.	How “tradition” keeps growing	502; title: Main References	510