In the second mode, both the quality and its recognizable ordinary cause are present. The poet substitutes another asserted cause. Its effect depends on the audience knowing the usual reason while appreciating the invented literary reason.
A ruler may fight enemies for defense or victory. The poet may instead claim that he killed them to satisfy the expectations of carrion-eating creatures. This does not constitute a historical denial of the military motive; it is a rhetorical replacement.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
In the second mode, both the quality and its recognizable ordinary cause are present. The poet substitutes another asserted cause. Its effect depends on the audience knowing the usual reason while appreciating the invented literary reason.
A ruler may fight enemies for defense or victory. The poet may instead claim that he killed them to satisfy the expectations of carrion-eating creatures. This does not constitute a historical denial of the military motive; it is a rhetorical replacement.