In mode four, the supposed quality is not merely unobserved; it is impossible as a literal occurrence. The poet still supplies a fitting imagined cause, creating an effective fanciful attribution.
The impossibility concerns the literal reality of the invented relation: for example, a constellation consciously intending to serve a person and deliberately fastening a belt. The literary image personifies a celestial pattern as intentional human action.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
In mode four, the supposed quality is not merely unobserved; it is impossible as a literal occurrence. The poet still supplies a fitting imagined cause, creating an effective fanciful attribution.
The impossibility concerns the literal reality of the invented relation: for example, a constellation consciously intending to serve a person and deliberately fastening a belt. The literary image personifies a celestial pattern as intentional human action.