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[Micha Berger]

Speaking of those mar'eh meqomos, on Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:57:12AM
+0000, REMT wrote:
:> ... you repeat what I feel is the wrong half of the Rambam's phrase,
:> yes it's "sheKOL hanimna'os", but the Rambam continues "mechuyavei
:> hametzi'us". What are the "necessities of existence" if not the laws of
:> nature? He doesn't speak of paradoxes and laws of logic..<

: I don't understand "mechuyavei ham'tzius" to mean "necessities
: of existence." I believe it means "must necessarily have happened."...

I really doubt that, in general, and moreso in the Rambam in particular.
To use classical philosophical terms, you're saying "mechuyavei hametzius"
are non-contingent events. However, leshitaso, all of metzi'us is
contingent.

IMHO,
    mechuyavei: necessitated by
    metzi'us: empirical existence

Aside from that, R Dr Shinnar and I finally agree on our understanding
of a point in the Rambam. If that's not proof we found amito shel davar,
what is? Seriously, though, he showed that in Igeres Teiman the Rambam
makes the point more clearly referring to physics.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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