In nonverbal-rational indication, the sign is not a word, and reason recognizes a connection to another fact.
Textbook example: smoke indicates fire.
Additional illustration: daylight points to illumination from the sun.
No one has assigned these phenomena the status of words; they are connected through real-world relations understood by reason.
Classifying an indication does not automatically settle how certain a conclusion is in every particular case.
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Nonverbal-rational: inferring a cause
Dalālah, Waḍʿ and the Six Types of Indication
In nonverbal-rational indication, the sign is not a word, and reason recognizes a connection to another fact.
Textbook example: smoke indicates fire.
Additional illustration: daylight points to illumination from the sun.
No one has assigned these phenomena the status of words; they are connected through real-world relations understood by reason.
Classifying an indication does not automatically settle how certain a conclusion is in every particular case.