Abduktives Denken und talmudische Argumentation

Ronen Reichman focuses on a typically Talmudic interpretive methodology, revealing the argumentation figure which is called an »oqimta«, an abductive procedure in the Talmudic tradition. Abduction generally refers to a logical operation in which new explanatory hypotheses are formed. In abduction, an inference is made from the effect to the cause, from the consequences to the antecedents, a conclusion is drawn from a »result« by way of a »rule« to the »case«. The abductive way of thinking in the context of Talmudic legal hermeneutics provides integrated normative correctness controls in the interpretation of the existing legal traditions. The abductive argumentation examines the sense of the transmitted adjudication from the perspective of its normative acceptability.