Thus, ridiculing them for doing it | Like destroy the world for example |
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So the fact that they do transgress, although true, is being brought to the level of impossibility | Conditionals are primarily associated to predicates |
Notice that the conditional is simply a qualifier that we have added to the predicate.
And what rhetorical benefits it yields | So the Quraysh were people who transgressed, therefore this is an occasion of certainty, not doubt |
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You may be wondering why we are discussing conditionals in the chapter on predicates | Clearly chances are that the earth is still going to be spinning tomorrow |
In the next lesson we will look at the second anomaly | Some are particles and some are isms |
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The idea is that it is so impossible that if it is to be mentioned at all, it can only be mentioned hypothetically | Now this is interesting, and it is hard to understand without an example |
All of this is designed to exaggerate the level of work, by associating it with another impossible phenomenon.