Economists also had a workable theory of how the economy as a whole operates: Keynesian economics.
The electroweak theory was without a mathematical foundation, however, and in 1969 't Hooft and Veltman undertook to change, or "renormalize," it into a workable theory.
A mathematical foundation for the electroweak theory was lacking, however, and in 1969 Veltman and 't Hooft began working to change, or "renormalize," it into a workable theory free of nonsensical infinite quantities.
One workable theory is that older, more conservative cohorts polled on political views today came of age during a period of political conservatism: they are simply holding on to a position, not shifting it.
(Mele himself is not a compatibilist. He remains agnostic between compatibilists and incompatibilists, but offers each camp a best shot at a workable theory).
In many applications, assumptions about the log-convexity of a probability distribution allow just enough special structure to yield a workable theory.
Again, this does not mean that an ethical theory, such as Merritt's, is not a workable theory; as Meritt argues, this may be the ethical theory that is appropriate to its (all too) human subjects.
As Darwin noted, Paley's thesis that the appearance of design must in fact be the outcome of design was refuted by the advent of a workable theory of evolutionary change.
Like many before him, Martin Bojowald, an associate physics professor at Pennsylvania State University, has found the search for a workable theory of quantum gravity anything but straightforward.
The discovery that I may actually be accomplishing something with my language snobbery is a serendipitous result of our ongoing effort to find a workable theory of cultural evolution.
