The Washington Post's Gene Robinson, one of the few voices of sanity in the padded-room world of cable news, tried to explain that seeing no daylight between a threat on the left and the brick-throwing, loogie-spitting behavior of the right was perhaps not the proper conclusion to draw from all of this.
Hannibal, had he pleased, could easily have possessed himself of this ground; but he had reserved it for a bait, or train, in proper season, to draw the Romans to an engagement.
The proper lesson to draw from these past failures isn't that we should give up, or stop protesting, but instead that the people must break the script of activism and protest differently this time.
The proper conclusion to draw from this conundrum appears to be that neither account I nor account II is correct.
Some say that the explanatory gap is unbridgeable and that the proper conclusion to draw from it is that there is a corresponding gap in the world.
The proper way to draw the mass / count distinction across languages is still debated (see Doetjes 2012 for a cross-linguistic overview advocating yet a different perspective).
If they do not, and if it turns out that they are needed for the deductive systematization of theories, then the proper conclusion to draw is that logic alone is not adequate for this task.
"When the court concludes that it is impossible to ascertain when such tipping might occur and that it cannot say with confidence that the harm is more likely than not to occur at all, the proper conclusion to draw is that the plaintiff has failed to make the clear showing required," the court wrote.
Such theorists may also reject the charge that their way of thinking is panentheistic, maintaining that the proper lesson to draw is not one of the transcendence of the holistic view but rather one concerning the degree of unreality or abstraction involved in any distributed view.
In a series of papers, Sandy Goldberg (2007a and 2007b) has argued, by contrast, that the proper moral to draw may instead be that the theses endorsed by Sosa are artifacts of an internalist epistemology that content externalism should make us question.
