Officials I have interviewed said they mainly need to see some specific proposals that do more than just blame American drug consumption for the region´s crime problem; they want Latin American leaders and legalization proponents to explain which drugs would be legalized, over what time period, and how the likely consequences might be managed.
The divergence of opinion is more likely the result of a failure on the part of stimulus proponents to explain why and how government investment - that is, spending by bureaucrats - is actually a good thing.
Intelligent design proponents seek to explain the problem of poor design in nature by insisting that we have simply failed to understand the perfection of the design (for example, proposing that vestigial organs have unknown purposes), or by proposing that designers do not necessarily produce the best design they can, and may have unknowable motives for their actions.
"If fair wages means a 'living wage' or some other notion of fairness, then it is incumbent on proponents, in my view, to explain why cheerleaders should get this protection," Coates said.
Few proponents, though, have stopped to explain just how flooding the country with more soldiers will fix the problems on the ground, accelerate the transfer of power to an elected Iraqi government, or pave the way for American troops to return home sooner.
In the 1980s, Wilson himself was a strong proponent of this theory to explain the origins of eusociality the type of very complex society seen in bees, ants, and termites.
Consider "intelligent design," a phrase used for over a century by critics of Darwin but only recently bursting into prominence as both a concept and a movement intended to explain, its proponents say, the "irreducible complexity" of nature.
BonJour's view of acquaintance seems to explain why, as proponents of the acquaintance approach tend to hold, one cannot be acquainted with external world objects or external world facts (BonJour 2001: 31).
Intelligent design proponents argue that naturalistic explanations fail to explain certain phenomena and that supernatural explanations provide a very simple and intuitive explanation for the origins of life and the universe.
If there are vital American interests in Syria beyond combatting terrorists such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, proponents of military escalation have failed to explain them, let alone convince the American public.
In what follows I'll briefly discuss some of the aspects of the use of expressions which proponents of non-mentalist theories have taken to explain their meanings.
