Feuerbach begins The Essence of Christianity by proposing that, since human beings have religion and animals don't, the key to understanding religion must be directly related to whatever it is that most essentially distinguishes human beings from animals.
The tempting line of argument that McDowell is concerned to resist starts by proposing that since hallucinations can be subjectively indistinguishible from genuine perceptions, the differences between your genuine perceptions and your hallucinations must be external to how things are with you subjectively.
There is a philosophy called "pessimistic meta-induction from the history of science", which proposes that, since the most watertight of old theories have been disproved, we must assume today's theories will be disproved, too.
Since Xiaoping Deng proposed that science and technology is the leading cause of productivity in 1975, the Chinese government promulgated a series of policies and laws to encourage technological innovation to assist economic growth.
A series of cyber laws have since been proposed that would increase the state's power to control and monitor the internet.
To count the number of solutions, Weil proposed that, since the questions were now geometric, they should be amenable to the techniques of algebraic topology.
In the mid-nineties, some American academics proposed that, since it has its own rules, and its own citizens (of a sort), the Internet ought be considered "sovereign" in a way.
During the Lancaster House conference, Britain had proposed that, since the resources it was able to give Zimbabwe would be inadequate, it could help Zimbabwe sponsor a donors' conference to solicit aid for land development and reconstruction.
He proposed that since they're the ones who'll be paying the taxes 10 to 20 years down the road when Social Security runs into trouble, perhaps we should honour their preferences.
He was the first black chaplain in the Union Army, the first black bishop to ordain a female minister, a fierce supporter of black emigration to Africa and one of the first blacks to propose that since white men believed God was made in their image, black men should claim him for themselves.
It was proposed that since the phase behavior of these are almost identical to those of copper II) alkanoates, similar dimeric interactions, axial metal oxygen intermolecular interactions were preserved and responsible for the formation and stabilization of these phases.
