As found in N.R. Hanson, Patterns of Discovery. (Cambridge University Press, London, 1961.) [Induction] sets out with a theory and it measures the degree of concordance of that theory with fact. It never can originate any idea whatever. No more can Deduction. All the ideas of science come to it by way of Abduction. Abduction consists in studying facts and devising a theory to explain them. Its […]
P.F. Strawson in his work Individuals an essay in Descriptive Metaphysics describes the conceptual system which we implicitly use in all human thought processes. This system has very general features which we all take for granted but do not bother to take notice of. Delineating concepts such as Space, Time, Physical Objects and the possibility of individuation, singling out individual objects, are part of this description. It […]
Isidore Twersky: Introduction to the Code of Maimonides, Yale University Press, 1980) p. 517. …the influence of this rich and resonant work was, in fact, unusually widespread and multifaceted, both specific and general; its impact – direct and indirect – on later odes was massive, even if not decisive in the strict Maimonidean sense, which it also crucially and creatively impinged upon other genres of halachic writing (commentary, […]
