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asked 4 years ago

You say that the indication that you are really learning something (studying and not learning) is when sometimes you think X and the text tells you Y and you adopt Y, so in a legend that you never change your mind but rather you push the legend or look for another legend is not called learning.
But in the case where I don’t think anything, I don’t think either X or Y, and now I learn X (or Y) through the legend (something that happens to me several times), is that called learning?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
The situation where the interpretation of a legend leads to a conclusion that contradicts your position is only an indication that a legend does not teach. This is the case even when you have no position. Think about a situation where you have no position and you see conclusion X in some legend. If you adopt this conclusion just because it appears in the legend, then you have supposedly learned something. But still, pay attention to a few points: 1. Such a situation simply does not happen. 2. The interpretations of the legend are so flexible that this interpretation cannot be a sufficient reason to adopt the conclusion. 3. Even if there is a clear interpretation, the legend has no authority and therefore there is no need to adopt this conclusion. If you decide to adopt it, it is your decision. Therefore, it is doubtful to what extent this can be called learning. Although in such a situation it can be said that you have learned what the wise man who wrote the legend thought on the question.

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