Commentary for Kiddushin 159:10

תניא כותיה דרבי יוחנן שני דברים אין בהם דעת לישאל ועשאום חכמים כמה שיש בהם דעת לישאל תינוק ועוד אחרת

and pieces are found in the dough:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Evidently caused by these.');">¹⁶</span> if they are mostly reptiles, it is unclean; if mostly frogs, it is clean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And because of the presumption which is based on a majority of a definite number before us, i.e., the greater number of reptiles, this dough, if terumah is burnt, whereas in the case of the child we have no majority immediately available to go by. v. Hul. 11a.');">¹⁷</span> It was taught in accordance with R'Johanan: Two things lack the intelligence to be questioned, yet the Sages accounted them as though they possess it:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As stated, on p. 407. n. I, when a doubt of uncleanness arises in private ground, the object in doubt is unclean. That is only if that which causes the defilement has the intelligence to be questioned about it; if not, the object is clean, v. Sot. 28b.');">¹⁸</span>

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