The St . Petersburggame is sometimes dismissed because it is has infinite expected value, which is, it's argued, not merely practically impossible, but theoretically objectionable beyond the reach even of thought-experiment.
As Thoreau put it: "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school... it is to solve some of the problems of life not only theoretically, but practically".
Arrington: Just theoretically.
Here we have presented two models that theoretically quantify expected compositions of nucleotides, codons, and amino acids, based merely on GC and purine contents (which are easily computed from input sequences).
But however theoretically convincing the distinction between having created the ideas as opposed to merely having disseminated them may seem, this is in actual fact quite disputable.
And the brain items, whatever they may be, are not, as Chomsky has sometimes claimed, in the same position as the "occult entities" of Physics like Gravitation; for the brain items are not theoretically unreachable, merely unreached.
Hume does not merely discuss the emotions theoretically, he narrates the philosophical experience of them in the "Conclusion to this Book" that closes Book I of the Treatise.
Theoretically it was merely an advisory body, but in practice it was a kind of political party and won the parliamentary elections in June 1989 (Solidarity took all the seats in the Sejm that were subject to free elections, and all but one seat in the newly re-established Senate).
One drawback is a possibility that the inferior survival time of the resistant group merely reflects more aggressive biology, theoretically associated with inclusion of greater proportion of cancer stem cells or cancer cells that have undergone epithelial to mesenchymal transition.
