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, […]
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“Oh Kitty, how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! I’m sure it’s got, oh! Such beautiful things in it! Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy […]
בס “ד (click here) pdf 7 בעברית -השופט בישראל השופט בישראל מאת גרשון פרקוף מקורות אלה יצאו לענות בצורה מאוד ראשונית על שלוש שאלות א. מה היחוד לשופט היהודי? ואיך שופט לפי התורה שונה משופט חילוני ב. מדוע היו אמוראים וראשונים ואחרונים כל כך נחושים להשמר מבתי המשפט חילוני אפילו שאין לנו שופטים יהודים מוסמכים בעל ידע במשפט העברי? מה העליונות של בית דין של שלוש […]
The Juggler’s Brain …the Net delivers precisely the kind of sensory and cognitive stimuli – repetitive, intensive, interactive, addictive – that have been shown to result in strong and rapid alterations in brain circuits and functions. With the exception of alphabets and number systems, the Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use. …The Net commands our attention with […]
WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO OUR MINDS – BIBLIOGRAPHY Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Minds. Mary Anne Wolf: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Benjamin N. Cardozo: The Nature of the Judicial Process (Yale University Press, 1921, Renewed 1949, printed 1964.) We do not pick our rules of law full-blossomed from the trees. Every judge consulting his own experience must be conscious of times when a free exercise of will, directed of set purpose to the furtherance of the common good, determined the form and tendency of a rule which at […]
We shall explore the historical record of how Jews coming from Europe in the early 1900’s abandoned Jewish religious practices, including the wearing of Tefillin. For the moment, click here for an article about Arthur Rubinstein of Vancouver, British Columbia at the Statue of Liberty.
