What is the rhetorical function of “this alone does not prove intentional dishonesty” after reporting defects?

Supplementary Practice 17: Market Inspection, Evidential Scope, and Rhetorical Precision

• Iḥtirās: preventing an unwarranted inference about intent
• Tatmīm: merely adds a new count of faulty scales
• Tadhyīl: presents a general independent maxim
• Iʿtirāḍ: inserts a clause inside the main sentence