CriterionMode 1Mode 2QualityEstablishedEstablishedOrdinary causeNot particularly manifestKnown or apparentRhetorical moveSupply a delicate causeReplace the familiar cause
The imagined cause is not actual in either case. Mode two especially involves substitution for a recognized explanation. Classification must consider the factual status of the quality and its ordinary cause, not simply whether the poem sounds unusual.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
CriterionMode 1Mode 2QualityEstablishedEstablishedOrdinary causeNot particularly manifestKnown or apparentRhetorical moveSupply a delicate causeReplace the familiar cause
The imagined cause is not actual in either case. Mode two especially involves substitution for a recognized explanation. Classification must consider the factual status of the quality and its ordinary cause, not simply whether the poem sounds unusual.