ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE 7th Revision An Essay on the Logical Foundations of Torah Study; SELF EVIDENCE, INTUITION, AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH by Gerald Parkoff *********************** This essay deals with the very foundations of Rule Following Systems and what underlies all legal and ethical systems of evaluation. The analysis is extended to Torah Law. The psychological process of intuition is discussed together with the very limits of […]
A NEURAL PORTRAIT OF THE HUMAN MIND:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility has become a major factor in the running of large corporations. Just as an individual should not Halachically engage in businesses where the profit is derived from illicit behaviour (such as running a house of prostitution or kidnapping innocent young girls for this purpose), so has the idea been extended to Corporations. Whatever the current efficacy of this movement, it is clearly a step […]
Short Video on the Life and Work of Kurt Godel:
This website is built around the idea of Linked-Data. Tim Berners-Lee’s great insight is that Linked Data increases intelligence and understanding. In fact, we learn by Comparison and Contrast. Comparison and Contrast is what enables us to form categories, the basic units of understanding anything. On this Website I have linked articles which expand and delineate an original idea. Linked-Data is the perfect medium for this. It should […]
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משנה מסכת עדויות פרק ב משנה ט [ט] הוא היה אומר האב זוכה לבן בנוי ובכח ובעושר ובחכמה ובשנים ובמספר הדורות לפניו והוא הקץ שנאמר (ישעיה מ”א) קורא הדורות מראש אף על פי שנאמר (בראשית ט”ו) ועבדום וענו אותם ארבע מאות שנה ונאמר (שם /בראשית ט”ו/) ודור רביעי ישובו הנה: My interpretation of HaDorot Lefanav follows that of Rabbi Joseph B Soloveitchik,z’l, as found in: Abraham Besdin: […]
There is a transition from intuition to Halacha in Jewish thought. In the Hakdama to Mitzvat HaBayit by Rabbi Yosef Epstein ztz’l, section two, he outlines in detail the transition from the Intellect and Intuition of the Avot to the requirement to observe the Mitzvot after Kabbalat HaTorah, (the formal acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish People). Rabbi Epstein observes that human intellect is an intermediary between […]
“We have seen that mathematical propositions which cannot be established by formal deduction from a given set of axioms may, nevertheless, be established by “informal” meta-mathematical reasoning. It would be irresponsible to claim that these formally indemonstrable truths established by meta-mathematical arguments are based on nothing better than bare appeals to intuition.” (Ernest Nagel, Godel’s Proof, p. 112) David Zviel: Godel actually constructs formal statements which must […]
הקדמה אגרות משה דכיון שיכולין לפרש בתורה כב”ש וכב”ה הרי נמצא שנאמר כתרוייהו כל זמן שלא נתבטלו דעת אחד ברבים החולקים. וזהו פירוש מי מעקב שמשה שאל למה עושה הקב”ה האותיות למלכים, שיעשו כפי משמעות החכמים בלשון הכתוב והמסור, דמי מעקב שתכתוב באופן שלא יהיה אפשר לפרש רק דרך אחד ככוונתך האמתית ולמה נתת כח מלוכה להאותיות שימצא שלפעמים יעשו שלא ככוונתך. והשיב הקב”ה משום שע”י זה […]
