Why is “The cloud rained from embarrassment” ḥusn al-taʿlīl unlike “Moisture accumulated in the cloud”?
The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
- Expressing a nonreal cause through a figurative word
- Claiming an exaggerated cause as literal truth
- It attributes a fitting imaginative cause
- Describing an unestablished quality without any cause