This section records an analytical difference associated with al-Sakkākī. In particular, implicit and imaginative metaphor may be explained by differing accounts of where the unexpressed vehicle appears and how its attribute functions.
One analysis emphasizes the claim that the subject belongs to the class of the vehicle. Another distinguishes the imaginative attribution of the vehicle’s characteristic. The relation of “death” to “claws” is the test case.
The dispute is not merely terminological; it affects the location of the transfer and the operation of its contextual clue.