Reference for Kiddushin 42:10

מאי רבי רבי כל מילי מאי מיעט מיעט סם

Now [in a sequence of] generalization, specification and generalization, you can include<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'judge'.');">¹⁴</span> only what is similar to the specification: just as the specification is explicit as of metal, so must everything [used for this purpose] be of metal. R'Jo interprets [by the method of] amplification and limitation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the general term is an amplification, extending the law to all things; the limitation that follows limits the law to such things as are similar to itself; hence these two alone are sufficient to arrive at the result deduced by Rabbi. Consequently, if a further amplification is added, it includes even dissimilar things, while the limitation can only exclude one or two things which are entirely unlike, v. Shebu. (Sonc. ed.) p. 12, n. 3.');">¹⁵</span>

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