theory - practice

is a distinction with out a difference, in theory. In practice, this is not the case.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra

is a distinction such that without theory, practice is but routine born of habit, but theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. Louis Pasteur

is always based on certain assumptions and interested in supporting certain hypotheses.

Both components are treated theoretically (which is to say, based on certain assumptions and interested in supporting certain hypotheses) and practically (which is to say, with an interest in illustrating a complexity). The main assumption which undergirds this project is that culture, as modes and symbolic categories, 'give[. . . ] order at once to practical experience, customary practices, and the relationship between the two' (Ohnuki-Tierney Cultura 3

is a distinction that falls, in the end, to the side of practice, for action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

is, in post-philosophical thought, a relationship whereby the practical component serves to always interrupt the unity of theory.

We may put this another way by saying that the two great bodies of post-philosophical thought, marked by the names of Marx and Freud, are better characterised as unities of theory and practice : that is to say that their practical component always interrupts the 'unity of theory' and prevents it from coming together in some satisfying philosophical system. (Jameson 2006 : pdf. )

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