Commentary for Kiddushin 149:11

ורמי דרב אדרב ורמי דשמואל אדשמואל דאיתמר ארוסה שעיברה רב אמר הולד ממזר ושמואל אמר הולד שתוקי

yet you say that the halachah is as R'Eleazar! Now, both Rab and Samuel are self-contradictory. For it was stated: If an arusah becomes pregnant:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And it is unknown whether by her arus or a stranger.');">¹⁴</span> Rab maintained: The child is mamzer;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the majority of men are forbidden to her, we regard it as certain that the child was born in adultery, and so it is a certain mamzer. Thus Rab treats a doubt as a certainty, which agrees with the first Tanna on 74a, that doubt and certainty may intermarry, and not with R. Eleazar.');">¹⁵</span>

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