The historical and legal arguments can be batted about till people are blue in the face but it won't change anything.

The document sets out a long historical argument reaching back 23 centuries to justify China's claim to all three areas.

Although not cited by these authors, two historical arguments also argue for a 49-year cycle.

He also gives a historical argument for the validity of the Bible.

However, the historical argument is not the only ground for the claim that theories are structural wholes of some kind.

The view however is being contested by a new historical argument that place the founding year in circa 1170.

He produced a whole battery of political, historical and philosophical arguments to back up his case.

The doubts surrounding the treaty have been eliminated, but I also believe that there was an old, historical argument involved here.

One would expect such an important historical argument to be accompanied by substantial evidence.

Thus, this article is useful for both its philosophical and its historical arguments.