Gulliver and the Rabbis: Counterfactual Truth in Science and the Talmud
The paper presents Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels as the first systematic attempt to claim that the normal methods of testing belief and opinion for clarity, consistence, coherence, and how they stand to the facts are powerless when applied to deep-seated normative commitments, or wha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-15 |
| Further subjects: | B
Newtonian Physics
B Talmudic laws of Damages B profanation of God's Name B Tamudic law of lost property B Jonathan Swift B framework assumptions B thought experiments |
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