1. Logic in the Torah
1. Introduction
2. Instances of logic in the Torah
3. Summary and conclusions
4. As regards the Tanakh
2. Adductive Logic in the Torah
1. The art of knowing
2. Adduction in Western philosophy…
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Foreword
The present volume, Logic in the Torah, is a ‘thematic compilation’; that is, it is a collection of essays previously published in some of my primary works. Such collections allow me to increase the visibility of scattered writings over many years on a specific subject. In the present case, …
1. Logic in the Torah
1. Introduction
There is evidently quite a bit of logic – inductive as well as deductive – to be found in the Tanakh (the Jewish Bible). Although this document aims, of course, primarily to convey narratives (they did this, they said that) and legislation (do this, don’t do that), it…
2. Adductive Logic in the Torah
1. The art of knowing
Induction, as an epistemological concept, refers to the logical processes through which all propositions, and their various constituents, are gradually developed. Some philosophers have tended to define induction as the pursuit of general principles from particu…
3. Qal vaChomer
1. Background
Jewish logic has long used and explicitly recognized a form of argument called qal vachomer (meaning, lenient and stringent). According to Genesis Rabbah (92:7, Parashat Miqets), an authoritative Midrashic work, there are ten samples of such of argument in the Tanakh: o…
4. Revised List of Biblical A Fortiori
1.Problems encountered
We stated earlier that, according to Genesis Rabbah, there are ten cases of a fortiori argument in the Bible: four of them in the Books of Moses and the other six in various other locations. This Midrashic work is traditionally said to have been compiled either by R…
5. The Language of Biblical A Fortiori
In this essay, my purpose is to analyze the language actually used in Biblical a fortiori statements. An empirical study, without preconceptions.
1.Introduction
A Biblical a fortiori argument, as we saw, usually consists of two more or less explicit sentences, one of which is the…
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