theoretical

There certainly were academic debates about democracy’s flaws, both practical and theoretical, but Fishkin’s interests seemed marginal to most of them.

“These threats are no longer theoretical,” the note said.

Results like this naturally lead to some important questions, which go far beyond the theoretical.

Instead, they took the academic route out, enrolling to study theoretical physics and medicine at Edinburgh University.

Noted theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, for one, was an apostle for it.