Confirmation as a misionary sacrament

A 'Lost' Sacrament of The Church: Viaticum.

Confidential donation confirmation as a alternative exclusion

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Confirmation as partial entailment A corrected proof

Michael Schippers pointed out to us in personal correspondence an error in the proof of the main result in Crupi, V. and Tentori, K., ”Confirmation as partial entailment: A representation theorem”, Journal of Applied Logic, 11 (2013), pp. 364-372. The flaw spotted by Schippers is that Lemma 2 (p. 369) does not hold in its original formulation. In what follows, we recapitulate the proof in a cor...

Evidential Confirmation as Transformed Probability

A considerable body of work in AI has been concerned with aggregating measures of confirmatory and disconfirmatory evidence for a common set of propositions. Claiming classical probability to be inadequate or inappropriate, several researchers have gone so far as to invent new formalisms and methods. Some of these have become widely used and theoretically explored [ 17, 15). We show how to repr...

Oral Transmission of Knowledge as Rabbinic Sacrament: An Overlooked Aspect of Discipleship in Oral Torah

Introduction: Rabbinic Sacramentalism? It is no news to announce that in rabbinic Judaism learning and study are holy, even sanctifying activities. But what is gained by asserting, as I do in the title of this essay, that aspects of classical rabbinic learning, particularly its insistence on the oral mastery of textual material, are usefully described as not merely 'sanctifying' but 'sacramenta...