It has been espoused by a variety of distinguished thinkers, including Epicurus, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill, and important discussions of it can also be found in works by Plato, Aristotle, Joseph Butler, G.E. Moore, and Henry Sidgwick.
The belief that expanding rapid transit could help alleviate social problems was not new -- it had been espoused from the 1860's on.
"The ideas that I've been espousing -- again lower the taxes rates, flatten it, make it far more simple, far less complex, but also make it so that the average American can fill out their taxes on a postcard -- I've been talking about this for months.
This view, which provides an immediate and satisfying theory of the value of aesthetic experience, has been espoused in some form or other by many of the classical British Empiricists (Shaftesbury, Hume, Addison, Lord Kames, Alison, and Burke, to cite only a few).
By decrying the campaign finance reforms that the city adopted in 1988, Mr. Bloomberg could undermine a cause that has been espoused by good government groups throughout the country.
A tentative attempt to elucidate the surface solution structure has been espoused.
The issue of bail reform has gained traction in recent years and has been espoused by the likes of California Senator Kamala Harris and Rand Paul, as well as civil liberties groups.
This view, which has been espoused by Arab media and political leaders, has also been discussed in Israeli academia.
A form of property dualism has been espoused by David Chalmers and the concept has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, but was already suggested in the 19th century by William James.
Although pure idealism, such as that of George Berkeley, is uncommon in contemporary Western philosophy, a more sophisticated variant called panpsychism, according to which mental experience and properties may be at the foundation of physical experience and properties, has been espoused by some philosophers such as Alfred North Whitehead and David Ray Griffin.
Historically, the first of these possibilities has been espoused.
