To analyse this method, distinguish the claim from the argument offered in its support.
Hypothetical premise: a plurality of independent deities would disturb cosmic order.
Intended inference: the ordered world is invoked to reject that supposition.
The rhetoric works through inferential linkage, not bare assertion. This differs from ḥusn al-taʿlīl, which attributes an imaginative or subtly constructed cause to a phenomenon rather than presenting formal demonstration.
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ʿIlm al-Badīʿ: Semantic Embellishments, Part II
To analyse this method, distinguish the claim from the argument offered in its support.
Hypothetical premise: a plurality of independent deities would disturb cosmic order.
Intended inference: the ordered world is invoked to reject that supposition.
The rhetoric works through inferential linkage, not bare assertion. This differs from ḥusn al-taʿlīl, which attributes an imaginative or subtly constructed cause to a phenomenon rather than presenting formal demonstration.