Because divisions between these perspectives are thin, evidence via additional criteria are persuasive only in combination, using inference to the best available explanation.
The problem now, however, is to provide a persuasive argument explaining why we should take love as primary in this way.
The political context also provided the reformers with arguments that in the end proved persuasive.
I argue that their arguments are not persuasive.
A study of the petitions they produced reveals why official urgings to become urban and modern were not uniformly persuasive.
Many of these studies, though not without their critics, are persuasive as accounts of single episodes.
I do not find this persuasive- partly it does not seem to me to be a conundrum, at all.
But that still leaves us a long way from the elaboration of a persuasive reform program.
