The link between theory and practice has preoccupied many of the brightest
intellects, and has generated one of the broadest discursive traditions in
Western thought. Some theorists have looked at the precise ways in which
theory influences practice, or vice versa, while others have theorized on
how it should influence practice, or how it may be tested through practice.
Some theorists have focused on moral action, others on political action,
and yet others on aesthetic, technical or even entrepreneurial action. Yet,
the link between theory and practice, while heavily theorized by most philosophical
and scientific traditions, has remained problematic, provisional and
ultimately unsatisfactory.