Reference for Shevuot 9:4

ורבנן אמר רבינא כדאמרי במערבא כל מקום שאתה מוצא שתי כללות הסמוכות זה לזה הטל פרט ביניהן ודונם בכלל ופרט

Now that you say that Rabbi [as a general rule] expounds 'generalisations and specifications', the difficulty concerning oaths [in our Mishnah] necessarily remains.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For if Rabbi does not expound 'amplifications and limitations' he cannot agree with R. Akiba, who includes oaths in the past tense.');">⁴</span> We must perforce say, therefore, that [in the Mishnah] he gives R'Akiba's view on oaths, but he himself does not agree.

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