He does not present a large amount of new information , but rivals is remarkable for the clarity of its economic and historical analysis and the cogency of its arguments .
Second , while acknowledging that the problems of the employment and appropriation of western conceptual apparatuses are real , it sees hermeneutic felicity and interpretational cogency not in terms of the retrieval or construction of some pristine entity that is authentic confucianism , which is a myth , but of inescapable comparisons .