[Avodah] schchita/death

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 06:37:41AM +0200, Joel Rich via Avodah wrote:
> 2 According to chizkia a shuddering animal after shechita is no longer
> living but not yet dead. Does this indeterminate status have any
> implications for the human definition of death? Schrodinger's cat?

Martin Gardner are two kinds of three valued logics that are often
discussed in the field. (I guess "wee often discussed", the book I
am remembering was likely published in the 70s or early 80s.)

There are those that defy the Law of Contradiction. A proposition could
be true, false, or both.

And there are those that defy the Law of Excluded Middle. A proposition
could be true, false, or something in between.

Quantum Logic is a more elaborate version of the first class, because
it's not three valued -- its "both" is a state whose value is any
complex numbers whose magnitude is 1. (That is, a+bi, where
    sqrt(a^2+b^2) = 1
This is why a qubit in a Quantum Computer is described by a point on the
surface of a Block Sphere -- that's the same set of numbers.)

But here I think we are in the second class. The animal who is still
quivering after shechitah is "something in between". And since it's not
dead, a Ben Noach may not eat it. But since it is rendered not alive
via shechitah, a Jew may.

But here, 

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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