[Avodah] Truth and the Rambam

[David Riceman]

  Me:
>> ...I suspect that it really bothered him that the 13 midot shehatorah
>> nidreshet bahem do not yield unique answers, and that may be why he
>> claims that few laws were deduced from them.
RZL:
> The Rambam says in Sefer HaMItzvos Shoresh Shayni that "rov" laws were
> deduced by them, and being that there were thousands that Osniel ben
> Kenaz reconstructed, the Rambam says, the number that were not forgotten
> must have been much more.
See the hakdamah to PhM (tr. Kafih p.11): The first class of halachot 
includes those which are deduced without ambiguity using MSNB, and the 
third class consists exclusively of those which were deduced with 
ambiguity using MSNB.  See his discussion of "misherabbu talmiddei 
Shammai v'Hillel ..." which begins on that same page.

David Riceman