'theoretical edifice' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to an idea or an argument that has been carefully built up. For example, "Smith's novel is an impressive theoretical edifice, with a carefully constructed argument and a consistent set of characters."
Badiou erects a huge theoretical edifice, heaping abstract nouns on top of each other, unhindered by any apparent obligation to cite data in support of his views.
In fact, this prescription was so hard to reconcile with other observations, of galaxies and their evolutions, that by 1991 some astronomers and press reports suggested that the entire theoretical edifice of inflation to blow up the universe and cold dark matter to fill it, not to say the Big Bang itself, might have to be junked.
If something else is actually causing those effects, the whole theoretical edifice would come crashing down.According to a paper just published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Tom Shanks and his colleagues at the University of Durham, in England, that might be about to happen.
The Standard Model, the long-standing theoretical edifice of particle physics, predicts a value of 0.72, Burchat notes.
Modern population genetics has built on this theoretical edifice in a number of ways, most notably by integrating the theory with data from molecular biology.
Investigations of the axiomatized rational reconstruction of theory shed light on the power and promises, and weaknesses and incompleteness, of the highest-level theoretical edifice of population genetics.
Lawrence M. Krauss, a cosmologist at Arizona State University, put it this way: "If the Higgs is discovered, it will represent perhaps one of the greatest triumphs of the human intellect in recent memory, vindicating 50 years of the building of one of the greatest theoretical edifices in all of science, and requiring the building of the most complicated machine that has ever been built".
The classical methods are the edifice of IDMs.
In short, by the time of Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th century, a fairly broad substratum of physical science existed, largely empirical but not without theoretical implications on which the edifice of modern physical science could be built.
Gorbachev's reforms served to release hopes and theoretical possibilities that collided with the realities of a system whose supporting beams could not be moved without the entire edifice crashing down.
