Logic in the Talmud

By Sion, Avi, Dr.

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Title:	Logic in the Talmud
Author:	Sion, Avi, Dr.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Philosophy, logic, Talmud, Torah, Tanakh
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
Historic Publication Date:	2018
Publisher:	Avi Sion - Kindle

Member Page:	Avi Sion
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Description
Logic in the Talmud is a ‘thematic compilation’ by Avi Sion. It collects in one volume essays that he has written on this subject in Judaic Logic (1995) and A Fortiori Logic (2013), in which traces of logic in the Talmud (the Mishna and Gemara) are identified and analyzed. A new essay, The Logic of Analogy, was added in 2022. While this book does not constitute an exhaustive study of logic in the Talmud, it is a ground-breaking and extensive study.

Summary
Logic in the Talmud is a ‘thematic compilation’ by Avi Sion. It collects in one volume essays that he has written on this subject in Judaic Logic (1995) and A Fortiori Logic (2013), in which traces of logic in the Talmud (the Mishna and Gemara) are identified and analyzed. A new essay, The Logic of Analogy, was added in 2022. While this book does not constitute an exhaustive study of logic in the Talmud, it is a ground-breaking and extensive study.

Table of Contents
Foreword 6 1. A Fortiori in the Talmud 10 1. Brief history of a fortiori 10 2. A brief course in the relevant logic 17 3. A fresh analysis of Mishna Baba Qama 2:5 33 4. A logician’s reading of Numbers 12:14-15 59 5. A critique of the Gemara in Baba Qama 25a 67 6. A slightly different reading of the Gemara 90 2. More on A Fortiori in the Talmud 94 1. Natural, conventional or revealed? 94 2. Measure for measure 104 3. The dayo principle in formal terms 114 4. The human element 131 5. Qal vachomer without dayo 137 6. Three additional Gemara arguments 146 7. Assessment of the Talmud’s logic 169 8. The syllogistic Midot 180 9. Historical questions 186 3. Enumeration of A Fortiori Discourse 191 1. A fortiori discourse in the Mishna 191 2. A fortiori discourse in the two Talmuds 234 4. Post-Talmudic Commentaries 250 1. Logic and history issues 250 2. Sifra 253 3. The Korach arguments 260 4. Saadia Gaon 266 5. Rashi and Tosafot 270 6. Kol zeh assim 274 7. Maimonides 287 8. More on medieval authors 296 9. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 306 10. More research is needed 314 5. A Fortiori in Certain Lexicons 317 1. The Jewish Encyclopedia 317 2. Encyclopaedia Judaica 321 3. Encyclopedia Talmudit 328 6. Initial Impressions on Method 332 1. Methods and contents 332 2. Davqa or lav-davqa? 342 3. Kushya and terutz 351 4. Standards of knowledge 356 7. Traditional Teachings 359 1. Hermeneutics 359 2. Heuristics 375 3. A methodical approach 385 8. The Thirteen Midot 392 1. Exposition and evaluation 392 2. Inference of Information 395 3. Scope of terms 416 4. Harmonization 424 5. Diagrams for the Midot 465 9. The Sinai Connection 478 1. Verdict on rabbinic hermeneutics 478 2. Artificial blocks to natural development of the law 491 3. How “tradition” keeps growing 504 10. The Logic of Analogy 512 1. Qualitative analogy 512 2. Quantitative analogy 520 3. Terms of unequal breadth 525 4. Conflicting analogies 529 5. Statistics-based analogical arguments 532 6. A scientific illustration 535 7. Use of analogy in making and applying law 539 8. A Talmudic illustration 541 9. More about analogy in the Talmud 564 10. Subsumption in analogical terms 568 Main References 571