Khiṭābah is argumentation built from accepted or probable premises, producing a preponderant judgment or motivating an audience toward action.
Maqbūlāt: premises accepted because of confidence in their source.
Maẓnūnāt: premises favored by indications and probability.
Purpose: persuasion and useful guidance, without dispensing with care about truth and evidential limits.
Demonstration aims at certainty; dialectic draws on reputations or concessions; rhetoric seeks probable persuasion. The next distinct subject, poetic syllogism, concerns imaginative premises and their effects.