قَدِيمٌ وَجَدِيدٌ، صَوَابٌ وَخَطَأٌ.
Old and new; correct and mistaken.
The pairings old/new and right/wrong create a contrastive pattern. In the preceding discourse they may support an analysis of ordered comparison, but the substantive claim is that age alone cannot determine a view’s truth.
Individual oppositions may be straightforward; full muqābalah requires attention to their ordered relation. Listing two pairs without explaining the argument misses what the pattern contributes.
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Practice 4: Advanced Balāghah: Integrated Exercises and Subtle Problems of Interpretation
قَدِيمٌ وَجَدِيدٌ، صَوَابٌ وَخَطَأٌ.
Old and new; correct and mistaken.
The pairings old/new and right/wrong create a contrastive pattern. In the preceding discourse they may support an analysis of ordered comparison, but the substantive claim is that age alone cannot determine a view’s truth.
Individual oppositions may be straightforward; full muqābalah requires attention to their ordered relation. Listing two pairs without explaining the argument misses what the pattern contributes.