{"id":411,"date":"2015-05-31T07:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T07:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=411"},"modified":"2015-05-31T07:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T07:33:36","slug":"even-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/logic\/even-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Even If"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Even if we are all wise men, all understanding people, and we all know the Torah &#8212; we have been given a mitzva (religious commandment) to tell about the redemption from Egypt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above is a well-known passage from the &#8216;Hagadda of Pesach&#8217; &#8211; the traditional text read and spoken by millions of Jews every Passover. Still there may be a hidden logical flaw in that innocent statement.<\/p>\n<p>Note that if (a) We all know the Torah; and (b) It is a religious commandment to tell something, then the obvious conclusion is: (c) We all know it is a religious commandment to tell that thing. Therefore, a subset of the original message is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Even if we all know we have been given a mitzva to tell about the redemption from Egypt &#8212; we must tell about the redemption from Egypt.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hence there are activities X for which <strong>even if<\/strong> we all know X is a &#8220;mitzvah&#8221;, we must carry out X.<\/p>\n<p>As we know the meaning of the words &#8220;even if&#8221;, one must conclude there <strong>are<\/strong> activities which we know are &#8220;mitzvah&#8221; but shouldn&#8217;t necessarily be carried out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even if we are all wise men, all understanding people, and we all know the Torah &#8212; we have been given a mitzva (religious commandment) to tell about the redemption from Egypt.&#8221; The above is a well-known passage from the &#8216;Hagadda of Pesach&#8217; &#8211; the traditional text read and spoken by millions of Jews every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,27,10,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-judaism","category-logic","category-ritual","category-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}