AspectDialectical methodḤusn al-taʿlīlFocusEstablishing a conclusion from premisesAssigning a subtle imagined causeConnectionImplication and evidenceImaginative causation and fittingnessExampleLaw kāna fīhimā...Mā bihi qatlu aʿdāʾihi...
The first asks, “Why does this conclusion follow?” The second asks, “What subtle fictive cause has been devised for this quality?” Both may use explanatory language, but their rhetorical purposes and kinds of connection differ.
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The Dialectical Method and Elegant Causal Attribution: Proof and Four Modes of Ḥusn al-Taʿlīl
AspectDialectical methodḤusn al-taʿlīlFocusEstablishing a conclusion from premisesAssigning a subtle imagined causeConnectionImplication and evidenceImaginative causation and fittingnessExampleLaw kāna fīhimā...Mā bihi qatlu aʿdāʾihi...
The first asks, “Why does this conclusion follow?” The second asks, “What subtle fictive cause has been devised for this quality?” Both may use explanatory language, but their rhetorical purposes and kinds of connection differ.