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formalism
[ fawr-muh-liz-uhm ]
noun
- strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- Religion. strong attachment to external forms and observances.
- Ethics. a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences.
- Logic, Mathematics. a doctrine, which evolved from a proposal of David Hilbert, that mathematics, including the logic used in proofs, can be based on the formal manipulation of symbols without regard to their meaning.
formalism
/ ˈfɔːməˌlɪzəm /
noun
- scrupulous or excessive adherence to outward form at the expense of inner reality or content
- the mathematical or logical structure of a scientific argument as distinguished from its subject matter
- the notation, and its structure, in which information is expressed
- theatre a stylized mode of production
- (in Marxist criticism) excessive concern with artistic technique at the expense of social values, etc
- the philosophical theory that a mathematical statement has no meaning but that its symbols, regarded as physical objects, exhibit a structure that has useful applications Compare logicism intuitionism
Derived Forms
- ˌformalˈistic, adjective
- ˈformalist, noun
- ˌformalˈistically, adverb
Other Words From
- formal·ist noun adjective
- formal·istic adjective
- formal·isti·cal·ly adverb
- anti·formal·ist noun adjective
- non·formal·ism noun
- nonfor·mal·istic adjective
- unfor·mal·istic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of formalism1
Example Sentences
Formalism says by combining and recombining them, contextualizing them in terms of what’s being heard, musically, that’s where meaning is found.
Hardy called his new formalism the “causaloid” framework, where the causaloid is the mathematical object used to calculate the probabilities of outcomes of any measurement in any region.
Accounting for these scenarios has forced researchers to develop new mathematical formalisms and ways of thinking.
He was accused of “formalism,” a catch-all accusation that, like “Trotskyite,” had the ring of execution about it.
The concept is that the formalism of past summits has made meaningful conversation difficult.
Originally trained as a painter, Mthethwa brings a determined visual formalism to the portraits of his subjects in their homes.
The very origin of Khassidism was due to a protest against that cold formalism which excluded everything imaginative.
If there is any bias on the bench that is popularly and justly disliked it is a bias towards formalism and technicalities.
There was a formalism to it, there was pomp and circumstance.
In Islam devotion is a strong point, formalism is its weakness.
Any explanation would be futile of this branch of a forgotten formalism.
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