A few malicious landlords "would get several vacancies in the building, put their goons in to live as theoretical tenants and then have them cause excessive noise at all hours, verbally and physically abuse legitimate tenants, literally destroy the property by breaking walls, knocking out windows, doing all sorts of vicious things.
From being declared only three-fifths of the value of a white person in its constitution to slavery to Jim Crow to ongoing institutionalized discrimination and personalized racism, the flaws in the systems and people that comprise and constrain American life are a lived, not theoretical, experience to many African Americans and other people of color.
Senator John B. Breaux, Democrat of Louisiana, said, "We don't live in a theoretical world where everybody does things properly and appropriately and in a supervised manner".
Unfortunately, we don't live in a theoretical society.
Here, we use a combination of quantitative live imaging and theoretical modeling to investigate the function of multiple enhancers for the regulation of a common target gene within a single cell type.
With a knowledge to which we are not a party... It's as if he were living a parallel theoretical life".
There are several insights in this book, but one of Mr. Krishna's more important is that, as he writes, "poverty is not an undifferentiated mass living beneath some theoretical or statistical line".
A defense witness who testified that all the supposedly illegal tips were already public was mocked by Mr. Brodsky as living in "a theoretical world completely divorced from reality".
This adequate concept is the Idea, which, after tracking through considerations of the living individual and theoretical and practical cognition, emerges as the Absolute Idea.
It's not that he's averse to arguing that we should believe in X's because doing so will make our theoretical lives easier.
