Assertion: evidence | /r/CapableOf | offer compelling support
Facets:
value: for each of the later alternatives
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In the progression from Aristotelian to Cartesian to Newtonian to contemporary mechanical theories, for instance, the evidence available at the time each earlier theory dominated the practice of its day also offered compelling support for each of the later alternatives (unconceived at the time) that would ultimately come to displace it.