Why on earth does recanting not disqualify his original shittah? Unless he was merely mimicking someone else’s shittah- otherwise, if HE thought up the theory and then HE stated it was wrong, WHY would it be a credit to him to say that the position that HE satated was wrong was actually right? It’s making the only value of his learning his name and not his actual opinion- th eonly reason why this shittah is still valid is because it’s the Rambam who said it and not because he felt it was correct. If he’s already said that he thought it was wrong, it’s a disservice to credit him for it.
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