Logical and Spiritual Reflections
Publisher: Author through Lulu.com; Avi Sion
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9782970009191
Table of contents: title: I.	Logical Reflections	7; title: Book 1.	HUME’S PROBLEMS WITH INDUCTION	9; title: 1.	Hume’s “problem of induction”	10; title: 2.	The principle of induction	14; title: 3.	Causation, necessity and connection	19; title: 4.	The psychology of induction	24; title: 5.	The self or soul	32; title: 6.	Freewill	36; title: 7.	The is-ought dichotomy	38; title: 8.	Hempel's paradox of confirmation	41; title: 9.	Goodman’s paradox of prediction	50; title: 10.	The induction of induction	56; title: 11.	Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy	60; title: 12.	Some further remarks on causal logic	65; title: 13.	Addenda (2009)	72; title: Book 2.	A SHORT CRITIQUE OF KANT’S UNREASON	75; title: 1.	Kant’s transcendental reality	76; title: 2.	The analytic-synthetic dichotomy	86; title: 3.	Theory of knowledge	96; title: 4.	Experience, space and time	101; title: 5.	Kant’s “categories”	111; title: 6.	Ratiocinations	121; title: 7.	How numbers arise	129; title: 8.	Geometrical logic	133; title: 9.	Addenda (2009-10)	138; title: Book 3.	IN DEFENSE OF ARISTOTLE’S LAWS OF THOUGHT	141; title: 1.	Logicians have to introspect	142; title: 2.	The primacy of the laws of thought	146; title: 3.	The ontological status of the laws	151; title: 4.	Fuzzy logic	153; title: 5.	Misrepresentation of Aristotle	156; title: 6.	Not on the geometrical model	161; title: 7.	A poisonous brew	164; title: 8.	The game of one-upmanship	168; title: 9.	In Buddhist discourse	171; title: 10.	Calling what is not a spade a spade	176; title: 11.	Buddhist causation theory	179; title: 12.	A formal logic of change	182; title: 13.	Buddhist critique of change	184; title: 14.	Different strata of knowledge	187; title: 15.	Impermanence	190; title: 16.	Buddhist denial of the soul	194; title: 17.	The status of sense perceptions	198; title: 18.	The status of dreams and daydreams	202; title: 19.	The status of conceptions	205; title: 20.	The laws of thought in meditation	208; title: 21.	Reason and spirituality	211; title: 22.	Addenda (2010)	214; title: II.	Spiritual Reflections	215; title: Book 4.	MORE MEDITATIONS	217; title: 1.	Go directly and keep going	218; title: 2.	Breath and thought awareness	220; title: 3.	Self awareness	222; title: 4.	Meditation on the self	224; title: 5.	Various remarks on meditation	226; title: 6.	Mental health	231; title: 7.	Behold the mind	234; title: 8.	The four foundations and the core practice	238; title: 9.	Transcending suffering and karma	241; title: 10.	Behold the soul	243; title: 11.	The Buddhist no-soul theory	246; title: 12.	Buddhist historicity	251; title: 13.	About Buddhist idolatry	253; title: 14.	Buddhist messianism	256; title: 15.	Assimilating Buddhism	258; title: 16.	Addenda (2009)	260; title: Book 5.	ZEN JUDAISM	265; title: 1.	God and Creation	266; title: 2.	Torah and faith	269; title: 3.	Biblical text and commentary	273; title: 4.	Tradition vs. innovation	280; title: 5.	The rabbinical estate	283; title: 6.	Judaic illogic	285; title: 7.	Jewish meditation	291; title: 8.	Enlightenment without idolatry	296; title: 9.	Good people	299; title: 10.	A world of mercy	302; title: 11.	Understanding injustice	304; title: 12.	Forgiveness	308; title: 13.	Actions and reactions.	311; title: 14.	(Appendix 1) Round numbers in Torah statistics	314; title: 15.	(Appendix 2) Prayer in uncertainty	328; title: 16.	Addenda (2009)	335; title: 17.	Logic in defense of Zionism (2009)	341; title: 18.	The Chanukah lights miracle:	347; title: Book 6.	NO TO SODOM	352; title: 1.	Picking up the gauntlet	353; title: 2.	Homosexuals defined	355; title: 3.	Homosexual tendencies	358; title: 4.	The biological role of sex	360; title: 5.	Non-reproductive sex	362; title: 6.	Deviance and suffering	364; title: 7.	Some probable causes	366; title: 8.	Changing rationalizations	369; title: 9.	It is freely chosen	371; title: 10.	Sensuality and perversion	373; title: 11.	Spiritual impurity	376; title: 12.	The essence of sodomy	378; title: 13.	A social revolution	380; title: 14.	The defenders and promoters of homosexuality	383; title: 15.	Some legal issues	385; title: 16.	A call for recovery	388; title: 17.	(Annex)   The Rabbis must ban homosexuals from Judaism	390; title: Figures; title: 1.	A syllogism with geometrical propositions	134; title: 2.	Definite and indefinite terminology		154; title: 3.	Visualizations of negation			169