حُسْنُ التَّعْلِيل
Ḥusn al-taʿlīl: offering a graceful imagined cause.
This figure arises when an actual or supposed quality is assigned a fitting but imaginative cause in place of the ordinary explanation. The presence of “because” is not decisive; determine whether the reason is a factual argument or an aesthetic fiction.
Where accepted premises are marshaled to establish a conclusion, the analysis turns toward al-madhhab al-kalāmī. Both can sound explanatory, but their evidential and imaginative functions differ.