TestMode 3Mode 4Established?NoNoPossible?Yes, in principleNo, literally impossibleExampleAn informer’s harm becomes beneficialGemini consciously resolves to serve
Both modes use imaginative attribution, but the possibility status of the quality differs. An unestablished possibility need not have actually happened; the impossible one was never intended as a literal possibility.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
TestMode 3Mode 4Established?NoNoPossible?Yes, in principleNo, literally impossibleExampleAn informer’s harm becomes beneficialGemini consciously resolves to serve
Both modes use imaginative attribution, but the possibility status of the quality differs. An unestablished possibility need not have actually happened; the impossible one was never intended as a literal possibility.