He simply insisted that the questions confronting political theorists were historically constituted, posed in specific historical forms, in the context of specific social relations, practical activities, grievances, conflicts and struggles.
The story was that the pair, who are 53 and better known as the writers and producers of a popular television show in the 1970's and 80's in which they appeared as what might be called science clowns, had posed as string theorists to obtain fraudulent doctorates.
In combination, these two uniquely human features characterize how we are unlike baboons, and thus specify one of the central questions posed by DI theorists.
Theorists sit around and think.
Similarly, number systems have posed a problem for theorists because such symbols as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, etc., which are conventional across many languages, appear to express thought directly without any intermediary linguistic structure.
A challenge posed for the epistemic theorist's response is that on such a view the commonly supposed connection between meaning and use appears to be severed.
Mathematics has several notorious unsolved problems, and the puzzle posed by the French number theorist Pierre de Fermat over 350 years ago is one of the most notorious of them all.
Another major stumper was posed by S. James Gates, a string theorist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Disability theorists can find it frustrating that most nondisabled people in bioethics dispute their claims about their experience, but those theorists must respond to whatever challenge to the social model is posed by people with disabilities who see their condition, and not society, as the major impediment to their living rewarding lives.
Analogous questions can be posed for the specious presents posited by Retentional and Extensional theorists: how do they manage to combine to form such streams?
