and conceptual constructions are often presented in the form of general principles. 127 When the academic scholar relies upon principles, in other words, he does 126 For a strong statement of this view see Shalom Albeck’s introduction to his Dinei mamonot batalmud (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1976), pp., 13-31, translated in Jackson (note 118, above), pp. 1-20. That law should embody the characteristic of ...