What should be identified first when classifying an instance of ḥusn al-taʿlīl?

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

• Explicitness versus allusion in the attributed cause
• Strong versus weak fittingness of the invented cause
• Intensity of hyperbole versus poetic meter
• The quality or event being explained