Jewish law discusses a number of cases that involve proportions in populations. The style of reasoning resembles that of the Greek medical writers, but the examples are quite different, though a few of them are also medical. Jewish law deals with far more than what other societies regard as legal. It lays down an order for all activities of life. There is immense pressure on the interpreters of the law to produce answers for all doubtful cases and methods that can be thought to solve in principle all future doubts. While a decision procedure for doubtful cases need not be one that aims at
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