FUTURE LOGIC | THE LOGIC OF CAUSATION | JUDAIC LOGIC |
© Avi Sion, 1990 and 1996. | © Avi Sion, 1999, 2003, 2010. | © Avi Sion, 1995 and 1997. |
Abstract | Abstract | Abstract |
Table of Contents | Table of Contents | Table of Contents |
Chapters | Chapters | Chapters |
Part I. Actual Categoricals | Phase One: Macroanalysis | 1. Introduction |
1. Introduction | 1. The Paradigm of Causation | 2. Adductive Logic in the Torah |
2. Foundations | 2. The Generic Determinations | 3. The Formalities of A-Fortiori Logic |
3. Logical Relations | 3. The Specific Determinations | 4. Qal VaChomer |
4. Words and Things | 4. Immediate Inferences | 5. Revised List of Biblical A-Fortiori |
5. Propositions | 5. Causative Syllogism | 6. The Language of Biblical A-Fortiori |
6. Oppositions | 6. Lists of Positive Moods | 7. Without Prejudice |
7. Eductions | 7. Reduction of Positive Moods | 8. Initial Impressions |
8. Syllogisms: Definitions | 8. Matricial Analyses | 9. Traditional Teachings |
9. Syllogisms: Applications | 9. Squeezing Out More Information | 10. The Thirteen Midot (I) |
10. Syllogisms: Validations | 10. Wrapping Up Phase One | 11. The Thirteen Midot (II) |
Part II. Modal Categoricals | Phase Two: Microanalysis | 12. The Sinai Connection. |
11. Modality: Categories and Types | 11. Piecemeal Microanalysis | 13. On the Concept of Mitzvah |
12. Sources of Modality | 12. Systematic Microanalysis | 14. Logical Aspects of Emunah |
13. Modal Propositions | 13. Some More Microanalyses | 15. Epilogue |
14. Modal Oppositions and Eductions | 14. Main Three-Item Syllogisms | Appendices |
15. Main Modal Syllogisms | 15. Some More Three-Item Syllogisms | Addenda |
16. Other Modal Syllogisms | 16. Outstanding Issues | Diagrams |
17. Transitive Categoricals | Phase Three: Software Assisted Analysis | Allied Works |
18. Permutation | 17. Resuming the Research | Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation |
19. More About Quantity | 18. Moduses of the Forms | Le raisonnement talmudique |
Part III. Logical Conditioning | 19. Defining Causation | Islamic Logic |
20. Credibility | 20. Concerning Complements | Order the SlatkineEdition of Judaic Logic |
21. Logical Modality | 21. Causative Syllogisms | |
22. Contextuality | 22. Scanning for Conclusions | MEDITATIONS |
23. Conjunction | 23. Exploring Further Afield | © Avi Sion, 2006. |
24. Hypothetical Propositions | 24. A Practical Guide to Causative Logic | Abstract |
25. Hypotheticals: Oppositions and Eductions | Appendices | Table of Contents |
26. Disjunction | J.S. Mill’s Methods: A Critical Analysis | Chapters |
27. Intricate Logic | Grand Matrices | Part 1: Some Theoretical Considerations |
28. Logical Compositions | Tables and Diagrams | 1. What is meditation? |
29. Hypothetical Syllogism and Production | References | 2. Thought and meditation |
30. Logical Apodosis and Dilemma | | 3. The goals of meditation |
31. Paradoxes | VOLITION & ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS | 4. Theory and practice |
32. Double Paradoxes | © Avi Sion, 2004. | 5. Interpretations |
Part IV. De Re Conditioning | Abstract | 6. The coexistence of the One and the many |
33. Conditional Propositions | Table of Contents | 7. Methods and experiences |
34. Natural Conditionals: Features | Chapters | Part 2: Understanding TheSelf |
35. Natural Conditionals: Oppositions, Eductions | 1. Basic Causal Relations | 8. The individual self in Monism |
36. Natural Conditional Syllogism and Production | 2. Interactions between Volition and Causation | 9. The impression of self |
37. Natural Apodosis and Dilemma | 3. Further Analysis of Volition | 10. Impermanence: the concept and the principle |
38. Temporal Conditionals | 4. Consciousness and Responsibility | 11. Not an essence, but an entity |
39. Extensionals: Features, Oppositions, Eductions | 5. Influence and Freedom | 12. Distinguishing the ego |
40. Extensional Conditional Deduction | 6. Further Analysis of Influence | 13. Dismissing the ego |
41. Modalities of Subsumption | 7. The Workings of Volition | 14. Relief from suffering |
42. Condensed Propositions | 8. Volition and the Special Sciences | Part 3: Some Behavioral Disciplines |
Part V(a). Class-Logic | 9. Will, Velleity and Whim | 15. Taking up the challenge |
43. The Logic of Classes | 10. Affections and Appetites | 16. Face facts with equanimity |
44. Hierarchies and Orders | 11. Complications of Influence | 17. Stop substance addictions |
45. Illicit Processes in Class Logic | 12. Urges and Impulses | 18. Don’tstuff yourself silly |
Part V(b). Adduction | 13. The Quasi-Purposive in Nature | 19. Limit input from the media |
46. Adduction | 14. Concepts of Evolution | 20. Forget your face |
47. Theory Formation | 15. More about Evolution | 21. Give up sensuality |
48. Theory Selection | 16. The Self | 22. On “sexual liberation” |
49. Synthetic Logic | 17. Some Topics in Deontology | 23. Practice non-attachment |
Part VI. Factorial Induction | 18. More Topics in Deontology | Part 4: Some Sitting Meditations |
50. Actual Induction | Appendixes | 24. Time, placeand posture |
51. Elements and Compounds | References | 25. Observe the mechanisms of thought |
52. Fractions and Integers | | 26. Stop unnecessary thinking |
53. Factorial Analysis | LOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS | 27. Dealing with distractions |
54. Modal Induction | © Avi Sion, 2008. | 28. Sitting forgetting |
55. Factor Selection | Abstract | 29. Breath awareness |
56. Applied Factor Selection | Table of Contents | 30. Being here and now |
57. Formula Revision | Chapters | 31. With or without a self |
58. Gross Formula Revision | Part I – Logical Reflections | 32. Whether mind or matter |
59. Factorial Formula Revision | Book 1. Hume’s Problems with Induction | 33. Already there |
Part VII. Perspectives | 1. Hume’s “problem of induction” | |
60. Phenomena | 2. The principle of induction | LOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS |
61. Consciousness and The Mind | 3. Causation, necessity and connection | Abstract |
62. Perception and Recognition | 4. The psychology of induction | Table of Contents |
63. Past Logic | 5. The self or soul | References |
64. Critique of Modern Logic | 6. Freewill | Chapters |
65. Developments in Tropology | 7. The is-ought dichotomy | Part II – Spiritual Reflections |
66. Metalogic | 8. Hempel’s paradox of confirmation | Book 4. More Meditations |
67. Inductive Logic | 9. Goodman’s paradox of prediction | 1. Go directly and keep going |
68. Future Logic | 10. The induction of induction | 2. Breath and thought awareness |
References | 11. Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy | 3. Self awareness |
Appendices | 12. Some further remarks on causal logic | 4. Meditation on the self |
Appendix 1 – introduction | Book 2. A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason | 5. Various remarks on meditation |
1st segment of table (F1-F21) | 1. Kant’s transcendental reality | 6. Mental health |
2nd segment of table (F22-F42) | 2. The analytic-synthetic dichotomy | 7. Behold the mind |
3rd segment of table (F43-F63) | 3. Theory of knowledge | 8. The four foundations and the core practice |
Appendix 2 | 4. Experience, spaceand time | 9. Transcending suffering and karma |
| 5. Kant’s “categories” | 10. Behold the soul |
PHENOMENOLOGY | 6. Ratiocinations | 11. The Buddhist no-soul theory |
© Avi Sion, 2003. | 7. How numbers arise | 12. Buddhist historicity |
Abstract | 8. Geometrical logic | 13. About Buddhist idolatry |
Table of Contents | Book 3. In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought | 14. Buddhist messianism |
Figures 1-4 | 1. Logicians have tointrospect | 15. Assimilating Buddhism |
Chapters | 2. The primacy of the laws of thought | Book 5. Zen Judaism |
1. What, Why and How | 3. The ontological status of the laws | 1. God and Creation |
2. Organizing Principles | 4. Fuzzy logic | 2. Torah and faith |
3. Experiences and Abstractions | 5. Misrepresentation of Aristotle | 3. Bible text and commentary |
4. Conceptualization | 6. Not on the geometrical model | 4. Tradition vs. innovation |
5. The Self | 7. A poisonous brew | 5. The rabbinical estate |
6. Additional Topics | 8. The game of one-upmanship | 6. Judaic illogic |
7. The Active Role of Logic | 9. In Buddhist discourse | 7. Jewish meditation |
8. Epistemological Issues in Mathematics | 10. Calling what is not a spade a spade | 8. Enlightenment without idolatry |
9. Theology Without Prejudice | 11. Buddhist causation theory | 9. Good people |
References | 12. A formal logic of change | 10. A world of mercy |
Appendices | 13. Buddhist critique of change | 11. Understanding injustice |
1 – Using Meditation | 14. Different strata of knowledge | 12. Forgiveness |
2 – Feelings of Emptiness | 15. Impermanence | 13. Actions and reactions |
3 – Mental Projection | 16. Buddhist denial of the soul | Appendix 1. Round numbers in Torah statistics |
| 17. The status of sense perceptions | Appendix 2. Prayer in uncertainty |
RUMINATIONS | 18. The status of dreams and daydreams | Book 6. No to Sodom |
© Avi Sion, 2005. | 19. The status of conceptions | 1. Picking up the gauntlet |
Abstract | 20. The laws of thought in meditation | 2. Homosexuals defined |
Table of Contents | 21. Reason and spirituality | 3. Homosexual tendencies |
Chapters | | 4. The biological role of sex |
Part I: Logic Notes | BUDDHIST ILLOGIC | 5. Non-reproductive sex |
1. About the Laws of Thought | © Avi Sion, 2002. | 6. Deviance and suffering |
2. About Induction | Abstract | 7. Some probable causes |
3. About Words | Table of Contents | 8. Changing rationalizations |
4. About Formal Logic | Chapters | 9. It is freely chosen |
5. About Paradoxes | Foreword | 10. Sensuality and perversion |
6. About “Modern Logic” | 1. The Tetralemma | 11. Spiritual impurity |
7. About Cognitive Development | 2. Neither Real NorUnreal | 12. The essence of sodomy |
8. About Causal Logic | 3. Nagarjuna’s Use of Dilemma | 13. A social revolution |
9. About Negation | 4. The Subject-Predicate Relation | 14. The defenders and promoters of homosexuality |
Part II: More Logic Notes and Essays | 5. Percepts and Concepts | 15. Some legal issues |
1. J.S. Mill’s Methods | 6. Motion and Rest | 16. A call for recovery |
2. Addenda to Judaic Logic | 7. Causality | 17. (ANNEX) The Rabbis must ban homosexuals from Judaism |
3. Diagrams for Judaic Logic | 8. Co-Dependence | ADDENDA to the Reflections (2009) |
4. Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation | 9. Karmic Law | Logic in Defense of Zionism (2009) |
5. Islamic Logic | 10. God and Creation | The Chanukah Lights Miracle (2009) |
6. Logical Aspects of Foucault’s “Archeology” | 11. Self or Soul | |
7. Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault | 12. Self-Knowledge | OTHER WRITINGS |
8. Bolzano’s Semantics Concepts | Not ‘Empty Logic’, but Empty of Logic | Thematic compilations |
| Appendices | Political essays |
SEARCH facility | 1. Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s Work | Syllogismes causatifs avec conclusions positives |
Cours Univ. Populaire | 2. Brief Glossary of Some Basic Concepts | Le raisonnement talmudique |
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A FORTIORI LOGIC | A FORTIORI LOGIC | A FORTIORI LOGIC |
© Avi Sion, 2013. | Part III: Modern and Contemporary Authors | 31. Various other commentaries |
Abstract | 13. Moses Mielziner | 32. A fortiori in various lexicons |
Table of Contents | 14. Adolf Schwarz | 33. Conclusions and prospects |
Foreword | 15. Saul Lieberman | APPENDICES |
Chapters | 16. Louis Jacobs | 1. A fortiori discourse in the Jewish Bible |
Part I: Formalities | 17. Heinrich Guggenheimer | 2. A fortiori discourse in the Mishna |
1. The standard forms | 18. Adin Steinsaltz | 3. A fortiori discourse in the two Talmuds |
2. More formalities | 19. Jonathan Cohen | 4. A fortiori discourse by Plato and Aristotle |
3. Still more formalities | 20. Michael Avraham | 5. A fortiori discourse in otherworld literature |
4. Apparently variant forms | 21. Gabriel Abitbol | 6. Logic in the Torah |
5. Comparisons and correlations | 22. HyamMaccoby | 7. Some logic topics of general interest |
Part II: Ancient and Medieval History | 23. Alexander Samely | Main References |
6. A fortiori in Greece and Rome | 24. Lenartowiczand Koszteyn | |
7. A fortiori in the Talmud | 25. Abraham, Gabbayand Schild | THE LOGICIAN home page |
8. In the Talmud, continued | 26. Stefan Goltzberg | BOOKSHOP |
9. Post-Talmudic rabbis | 27. Andrew Schumann | SEARCH facility |
10. A fortiori in the Christian Bible | 28. Allen Wiseman | Collected ABSTRACTS |
11. Islamic ‘logic’ | 29. Yisrael Ury | CONTACT e-mail |
12. A fortiori in China and India | 30. Hubert Marraud | Copyright Notice |
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© Avi Sion, 2018-9. | 1. A Fortiori Argument, in General and in Judaism | 5. Bar Ilan’sjournal, BDD |
Abstract | 2. Luis Duarte D’Almeida | 6. Self-publishing and Other Publishing |
Table of Contents | 3. Mahmoud Zeraatpishe | Main References |
Foreword | 4. Michael Avraham, et al. | SEARCH facility |
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