Why is mere novelty of the cause insufficient for effective ḥusn al-taʿlīl?

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

• The cause must be subtly fitting to the quality
• When the known cause is simply reworded
• When the causal relation is useful but not exaggerated
• When the poet makes the quality an explicit predicate