Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 235:5

תנן עד אומר מת ועד אומר לא מת אשה אומרת מת ואשה אומרת לא מת הרי זו לא תנשא בשלמא לרבי אלעזר סתמא כר' מאיר אלא לרבי יוחנן קשיא קשיא:

in dispute and it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The view expressed in the first clause. ');">¹⁵</span> represents the opinion of R. Judah and R. Simeon.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [According to R. Eleazar. R. Meir would forbid in the second clause remarriage to both women, because he admits a rival's contradictory evidence, whereas R. Judah and Simeon hold that a rival's contradiction is not admitted and hence they rule that both are permitted to marry. Similarly in the first clause, on R. Meir's view the first woman would not be allowed to marry, regard being had to the contradiction of her rival. On this assumption, the reason stated in the second clause for R. Judah's and R. Simeon's ruling, that neither denied the fact of the man's death, will have been advanced by them as an argument on the hypothesis that R. Meir's view, admitting the rival's contradiction, is accepted. [H]. ');">¹⁶</span> R. Johanan. however. stated that it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The view expressed in the first clause. ');">¹⁷</span> may be said [to represent even the view of] R. Meir, for in such a case even R. Meir agrees,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the assertion of the second wife is not regarded as valid contradiction of the evidence of the first. ');">¹⁸</span>

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