theoretical

• Based on the classical Euclidean scaling theory, an equivalent sphere is defined as a theoretical sphere with a volume equal to that of the organism whose body mass must be estimated. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• This is defined as a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the principles, sortal techniques and contexts in which alienists carried out their task. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• After reviewing the theoretical issues over which disagreements had first arisen -- notably the materialist dialectic, to which Trotsky gives a masterful introduction -- Trotsky reviews the organizational and political consequences of Burnham's and Shachtman's desertion of Marxist theory: e.g. the growth of factionalism, and of ambiguous and abstentionist positions on the question of the USSR and international politics.
• The truth of why / how climate change takes place still remains in the theoretical arena and is far from decided. —  RealClimate
• So, for instance, mass man is oblivious to the fact that much of what is known in modern times as science started as a theoretical or theological game in the seventeenth century. —  Evolution News & Views

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