Quoting%20commentary for Shevuot 42:6

ובדין הוא דבעי איפלוגי בעלמא והאי דקא מיפלגי הכא להודיעך כוחן דרבנן דאף ע"ג דאיכא למימר הואיל ומפרש חייב סתם נמי חייב קא משמע לן דפטרי

Come and hear: R. Akiba says, A nazirite who soaked his bread in wine, and there is sufficient in both together to make up the size of an olive, is liable. Now if you were to hold that everywhere he agrees with R. Simeon, what need is there for combining? And again, we learnt: I SWEAR I shall not eat', and he ate carrion, trefa, forbidden animals, and reptiles, he is liable; and R. Simeon exempts him. And we asked: Why is he liable, since he had already been adjured on Mount Sinai? Rab and Samuel and R. Johanan said: [He is liable because] he had included permitted things with the prohibited things. And Resh Lakish said: You cannot find [that he should be liable] except either, if he expressly stated half the legal quantity, and it will be in accordance with the view of the Rabbis, or, [even] if his statement was undefined, and it will be in accordance with R. Akiba's view, who holds that a man [in an undefined oath], prohibits to himself [even] a minute quantity. Now if you were to say that elsewhere R. Akiba also agrees with R. Simeon, then for a minute quantity he also stands adjured from Mount Sinai! Hence, we deduce from this [must we not?] that elsewhere he agrees with the Rabbis. It is proven.

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