Despite the merits of the paper, there are at least two methodological reasons why its conclusion remains ultimately unconvincing.
This point is made through the comparison of three unconvincing methodological models.
We find it unconvincing, however, that receiving the whole wealth endowment would engender the same level of human functioning for all individuals.
Or if his proposition is interpreted more loosely, it is equally unconvincing.
The work by painters tends to be unconvincing in its resolution of volume; the work by architects tends to neglect surface.
It started life as a single-span sonata but is formally unconvincing as a stand-alone work.
The problem though is that the ragga vocal is extremely unconvincing and comes across as merely comical and absurd.
This is not to say that all of his examples are unconvincing; some certainly do work.