A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
If something is presented as a fact, it has to be correct.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.