Sam, haven’t I seen you quoting later seforim, such as Shulchan Aruch? 🙂
C’mon Sam, you know that’s not what it means, and you’re untenable argument is basically that we have an oral tradition that we don’t have an oral tradition.
Ben, (nice to talk to you again)
I don’t think that’s what Sam means, even though you quoted the same Gemara, although he should speak for himself.
As I responded to him, I don’t think that is what it means either. I always understood it to mean that we don’t argue on a Gemara’s maskana, but obviously, new cases and applications, and debate about p’shat in the Gemara continue through the generations.
Our bookcases are filled with seforim which contain all sorts of things which were yet unwritten at Chasimas Hashas.
Without discussing LF’s specific point, there’s no reason to assume that the issue of how to treat words of gedolei hador in all inyonim isn’t part of our mesorah.