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لا محالة يشتمل على نسبة تامة بين الطرفين
Speech necessarily contains a complete relation between two sides.

A complete predicative relation makes the intended utterance complete. A report affirms or denies something of a subject; related structures may also serve non-assertive purposes.

For example:
العِلْمُ نَافِعٌ — Knowledge is beneficial.
العِلْمُ — What the statement concerns.
نَافِعٌ — What is attributed to it.

By contrast, “beneficial knowledge” contains a descriptive relation without asserting the same complete proposition.

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The complete predicative relation

ʿIlm al-Maʿani: Definition, Scope and Eight Chapters

لا محالة يشتمل على نسبة تامة بين الطرفين
Speech necessarily contains a complete relation between two sides.

A complete predicative relation makes the intended utterance complete. A report affirms or denies something of a subject; related structures may also serve non-assertive purposes.

For example:
العِلْمُ نَافِعٌ — Knowledge is beneficial.
العِلْمُ — What the statement concerns.
نَافِعٌ — What is attributed to it.

By contrast, “beneficial knowledge” contains a descriptive relation without asserting the same complete proposition.