Page 8 - A Fortiori Logic: Innovations, History and Assessments

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Contents in brief

Abstract ............................................................................................................................................. 1
Foreword ............................................................................................................................................. 8
PART I - FORMALITIES ............................................................................................................. 10
1. The standard forms .................................................................................................................... 10
2. More formalities ........................................................................................................................ 35
3. Still more formalities ................................................................................................................. 54
4. Apparently variant forms ........................................................................................................... 79
5. Comparisons and correlations ................................................................................................... 92
PART II – ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY ............................................................... 110
6. A fortiori in Greece and Rome ................................................................................................ 110
7. A fortiori in the Talmud .......................................................................................................... 129
8. In the Talmud, continued ......................................................................................................... 167
9. Post-Talmudic rabbis ............................................................................................................... 211
10. A fortiori in the Christian Bible ........................................................................................... 244
11. Islamic ‘logic’ ...................................................................................................................... 268
12. A fortiori in China and India ............................................................................................... 316
PART III – MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS ............................................... 326
13. Moses Mielziner .................................................................................................................. 326
14. Adolf Schwarz ..................................................................................................................... 336
15. Saul Lieberman .................................................................................................................... 341
16. Louis Jacobs ........................................................................................................................ 349
17. Heinrich Guggenheimer ...................................................................................................... 371
18. Adin Steinsaltz .................................................................................................................... 376
19. Jonathan Cohen ................................................................................................................... 387
20. Michael Avraham ................................................................................................................ 390
21. Gabriel Abitbol .................................................................................................................... 396
22. Hyam Maccoby ................................................................................................................... 411
23. Alexander Samely ............................................................................................................... 420
24. Lenartowicz and Koszteyn .................................................................................................. 442
25. Abraham, Gabbay and Schild .............................................................................................. 448
26. Stefan Goltzberg .................................................................................................................. 463
27. Andrew Schumann .............................................................................................................. 471
28. Allen Wiseman .................................................................................................................... 492
29. Yisrael Ury .......................................................................................................................... 528
30. Hubert Marraud ................................................................................................................... 544
31. Various other commentaries ................................................................................................ 560
32. A fortiori in various lexicons ............................................................................................... 578
33. Conclusions and prospects .................................................................................................. 593
APPENDICES .............................................................................................................................. 600
1. A fortiori discourse in the Jewish Bible .................................................................................. 600
2. A fortiori discourse in the Mishna ........................................................................................... 605
3. A fortiori discourse in the two Talmuds .................................................................................. 623
4. A fortiori discourse by Plato and Aristotle .............................................................................. 630
5. A fortiori discourse in other world literature ........................................................................... 639
6. Logic in the Torah ................................................................................................................... 645
7. Some logic topics of general interest ....................................................................................... 661
Main References ........................................................................................................................... 689