LessonsProhibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to RequestsQuiz

كَوْنُ الْمَطْلُوبِ مَقْصُودًا لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ لِذَاتِهِ أَوْ لِغَيْرِهِ
The requested outcome may be sought in itself or for some other objective.

Some requested outcomes are intended for their own sake; others are means to a further end. Asking for an address may be instrumentally motivated by a desire to visit.

This distinction explains how the first request can support an implied condition: the response often depends on the result that the request is intended to secure, not merely on the utterance of the request.

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What is sought for its own sake or instrumentally

Prohibition: Refraining, Rhetorical Functions and Responses to Requests

كَوْنُ الْمَطْلُوبِ مَقْصُودًا لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ لِذَاتِهِ أَوْ لِغَيْرِهِ
The requested outcome may be sought in itself or for some other objective.

Some requested outcomes are intended for their own sake; others are means to a further end. Asking for an address may be instrumentally motivated by a desire to visit.

This distinction explains how the first request can support an implied condition: the response often depends on the result that the request is intended to secure, not merely on the utterance of the request.