What chiefly differentiates dialectical argument from ḥusn al-taʿlīl?
The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
- The first organizes inference; the second invents a fitting cause for a quality
- The first uses analogy and the second always omits a simile
- The first emphasizes causal fittingness and the second implication
- Both aim to turn an implication into a real cause