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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 Slatkine Edition 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 The Self
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’t stuff 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, place and 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, space and 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 to introspect	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 Nor Unreal	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	The Thematic Compilations (2008-9)
8. Bolzano’s Semantics Concepts	Not ‘Empty Logic’, but Empty of Logic	The Laws of Thought (Expanded 2014)
	Appendices	The Self
Islamic ‘Logic’	1. Fallacies in Nagarjuna’s Work	Ethics
About A Fortiori	2. Brief Glossary of Some Basic Concepts	Theology (Expanded 2014)

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 other world literature
4. Apparently variant forms	21. Gabriel Abitbol	6. Logic in the Torah
5. Comparisons and correlations	22. Hyam Maccoby	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. Lenartowicz and Koszteyn
7. A fortiori in the Talmud	25. Abraham, Gabbay and 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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