What is the central rhetorical operation of al-madhhab al-kalāmī?

The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl

• Merely using conditional forms in poetry
• Establishing a connected argument for the intended conclusion
• Restating an accepted claim with a fresh example
• Defining a quality by an imagined cause