Theory mediates abstraction into policy by practicing synthesis.

Evidence

Olúfmi Táíwò, a leading theorist of the ethical, political, and epistemic challenges posed by climate crisis, practices theory as synthesis. His integrations articulate common notions like “security” and uncommon initiatives like “reparations” as bedrocks for justice. … Collectively minded, future-oriented, and valorizing “construction” as that capacity of theory which is also a capacity of praxis, this philosophy intercedes through rather than despite its own generalizing ambit. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 366