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Definition of formalism in English: formalismnoun ˈfɔːm(ə)lɪz(ə)mˈfɔrməˌlɪzəm 1mass noun Excessive adherence to prescribed forms. academic dryness and formalism Example sentencesExamples - The name of Cambridge, and the global reputation of the university, offer a unique opportunity for the architecture school to lead on the world scale as a proponent of an alternative credo to the obscuratism and formalism of other schools.
- A general consensus exists as to his anxiety to shed a load of cultural baggage - academic formalism, received ideas and above all the debased French tradition of naive musical imitations of nature.
- Here, surely, is a prime example of how formalism makes economists impervious to the evidence.
- Powell's formalism is not only distended and sonic, but also the product of subtly tailored typography and syntax.
- This inclination has developed the furthest in philosophy, political science, and economics, where most practitioners have adopted an otherworldly and self-referential formalism.
- When judging legal cases, British courts have a long tradition of formalism.
- I am not going to argue for the virtues of formalism.
- Our ability to make these judgments is critically important, because it opens the door to constitutional formalism - the depoliticization of the process of constitutional adjudication.
- As a quasi-court, the OEB is all legal formalism.
- The other influence is the realization that formalism is ‘a dead-end street.’
- That would be formalism, which is either arid or else, in some kind of complicated, sinister, paranoid way, connected to the oppressive operations of a mysterious power group.
- Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation.
- The transactional interpretation would then have to be considered in the context of such a revised formalism to decide if a conflict exists.
- The military's formalism and self-regard has often made it the butt of civilian humour.
- From the highest to the lowest, all were entangled in a subtle web of mutual espionage, and every element of individuality was crushed under the weight of unbending formalism.
- Shanghai is making government administration more transparent to its citizens, while firmly doing away with formalism and bureaucratism.
- Financial services in Bulgaria are still branded by formalism, bureaucracy and lack of interest, analysts said.
- Will high culture drive into the cul-de-sac of formalism, preferring museality to the contaminations of experience?
- Fortunately, I grew out of the spell of legal formalism and its infantile over-simplifications.
- Now I love formalism, if it reaches sensible results, and if it rests on formal distinctions that make sense.
Synonyms conventionality, traditionalism, orthodoxy, fitting in, following the crowd, running with the pack, swimming with the stream - 1.1 The use of forms of worship without regard to inner significance.
Example sentencesExamples - Evangelicity, in other words, guards against ecclesial formalism by breaching the walls of institutional isolationism.
- He shared a nineteenth-century German dislike for religious formalism and ceremony.
- After decades of dead formalism in denominational churches, the charismatic movement seemed to bring great spiritual freedom.
- The Bishop is not just being a slave to formalism.
- Juridical formalism is but a substitute for religious formalism.
- 1.2 The basing of ethics on the form of the moral law without regard to intention or consequences.
Example sentencesExamples - Gadamer uses Kant's aesthetic formalism to illustrate this point.
- Despite the substantial contributions he had made to topology by this time, Brouwer chose to give his inaugural professorial lecture on intuitionism and formalism.
- But at least it's better than formalism, logicism, intuitionism, constructivism or Platonism.
- Waismann criticized both logicism and formalism.
- When it comes to the philosophical issue of the nature of truth, most mathematicians fall into one of two camps called formalism and Platonism.
- For students steeped in late classical formalism, myself included, Lachmann's message of radical subjectivism was strange stuff indeed.
- Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
- Throughout his career, Sturr integrated pristine formalism with a tender humanism.
- But I was interested in the degree to which his vision was essentially pragmatist, or to be more specific, formalism justified by pragmatism.
- Formalists claim that legal realism is not true to the rule of law; realists respond that despite what formalists say, formalism isn't how the law really works.
- They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
- 1.3 Concern or excessive concern with form and technique rather than content in artistic creation.
Example sentencesExamples - Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
- The best work on the show fluctuates between two greatly differing styles, one a kind of elemental formalism, the other a figurative, narrative post-modernism.
- In its hostility towards formalism, Performance art related to other contemporary movements, including Conceptual art and Environmental art.
- In this way, neoclassicism's insistent formalism did little to close the gap between style and meaning.
- The brothers are often accused of empty formalism, offering up homages to film genres but lacking soul.
- Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
- This essay praised Propp's work, but pointed out that the problem with formalism was its policy of ignoring thematic content.
- If we could just appreciate the rightness of formalism over ‘ideas’ then we'd be on the right track.
- Here, he used the intimacy of video to infiltrate the intense, distancing formalism of modernist dwellings and let us peer into some fanciful dramas unfolding within them.
- Geczy's basic argument is that craft without an idea is simple formalism, a naïve tendency that can lead to all sorts of dark consequences.
- Coercive, manipulative attempts to recur to the symbolic (to enlist the unconscious mind) end in dead formalism, like bad adolescent prose and most modern poetry.
- His music combined dazzling bursts of musical light with Gallic elegance and the rigorous formalism of a classicist.
- They used their bodies to challenge modernist formalism, traditional relationships between artist and medium, and the boundaries between artist, spectator, and mass culture.
- Judd's thesis augured the inevitable evolution of Modern art into pure formalism and object-ness.
- In this fertile period he has embraced aspects of classicism, formalism, surrealism and most obviously, postmodernism.
- A slew of sculptors have emerged in Los Angeles in the last few years, but most seem stuck in either constrictive formalism or murky surrealism.
- This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
- Seeing as how pop music thrives on various levels of artifice, questions of authenticity aren't typically worth the effort, but it's hard not to hear more formalism than feeling in these rustic songs.
- The rival personae can contradict each other, so that the poetry is pulled one way and the other, between the extremes of sterile formalism and sloganeering.
- Desolation has become global and the photographer's world is decidedly anchored in formalism.
- 1.4 (in the theatre) a symbolic and stylized manner of production.
- 1.5 The treatment of mathematics as a manipulation of meaningless symbols.
Example sentencesExamples - Brouwer emphasizes, as he had done in his dissertation, that formalism presupposes contentual mathematics at the metalevel.
- He has also made this formalism more useful for practical calculations.
- The other basic version of formalism likens the practice of mathematics to a game played with linguistic characters.
- He approaches the subject with a physics-first attitude that allows the student to get to the fun parts without spending months learning formalism.
Synonyms dogmatism, purism, literalism
2A description of something in formal mathematical or logical terms. there is a formalism which expresses the idea of superposition Example sentencesExamples - Some subjectivity exists in the choice between models having few parameters, which favour the accuracy of their estimation, and more complex formalisms that are generally required to express ideas on biological processes.
- Qualitative modeling provides formalisms for expressing intuitive, causal models and the reasoning techniques needed to generate predictions and explanations from them for helping students see the consequences of their ideas.
- These logical formalisms are applied and tested in applications in other sciences, in everyday phenomena or in logic and mathematics themselves.
- Let us illustrate how a control strategy can be described qualitatively, using typical formalisms in qualitative physics.
- A wide range of plant-modeling formalisms is possible, depending on the category of system being controlled.
- Your proposal, therefore, has to give us a finite theory which combines these two formalisms.
- The mathematics of self-reference involves creating formalisms to reflect the strange situation in which something produces A, which produces B, which produces A.
- These formalisms do not adequately describe cases where the enzyme or substrate are membrane bound.
- It argues that qualitative formalisms and reasoning engines provide the means necessary to support learners in developing such conceptual models.
- Any attempt to disprove the theory of evolution using thermodynamics will require proper formalisms.
- Lachmann asked modern Austrians to rebel against the equilibrium models and logical formalisms of contemporary economic reasoning.
- The Maximum Likelihood section provides the details of the mathematical formalisms and computations.
- Pi-calculus and related formalisms are complex, but business people couldn't care less about formalisms.
- However, the formalisms that I'd learned in 1968 were out of date, and I understood only vaguely what the new ideas were and how they had been motivated.
- The most simple formalisms link crop growth to fertilization regime or to time, expressed in days or in time units (cumulative degree-days) from sowing.
- But, in the past, technology ended up generating objects - while science ended up generating rules and embedding them or expressing them in formalisms.
- This article highlights the mathematical foundations of formalisms proposed to mimic human qualitative reasoning along with potential and limitations.
- In the following subsections, we present the mathematical structures and focus on the mathematical soundness of the formalisms.
- Yet the development of the general theory of relativity introduced Einstein to the power of abstract mathematical formalisms, notably that of tensor calculus.
- A synergy between the development of theoretical formalisms, modeling and experimental work is fundamental to addressing the nanoelectronic challenges.
Definition of formalism in US English: formalismnounˈfôrməˌlizəmˈfɔrməˌlɪzəm 1Excessive adherence to prescribed forms. academic dryness and formalism Example sentencesExamples - This inclination has developed the furthest in philosophy, political science, and economics, where most practitioners have adopted an otherworldly and self-referential formalism.
- Powell's formalism is not only distended and sonic, but also the product of subtly tailored typography and syntax.
- Financial services in Bulgaria are still branded by formalism, bureaucracy and lack of interest, analysts said.
- Shanghai is making government administration more transparent to its citizens, while firmly doing away with formalism and bureaucratism.
- The transactional interpretation would then have to be considered in the context of such a revised formalism to decide if a conflict exists.
- That would be formalism, which is either arid or else, in some kind of complicated, sinister, paranoid way, connected to the oppressive operations of a mysterious power group.
- Here, surely, is a prime example of how formalism makes economists impervious to the evidence.
- When judging legal cases, British courts have a long tradition of formalism.
- Fortunately, I grew out of the spell of legal formalism and its infantile over-simplifications.
- Having conquered New Zealand years ago the army is beginning to lose its elan and ferocity and is drifting into empty formalism and bureaucratisation.
- Will high culture drive into the cul-de-sac of formalism, preferring museality to the contaminations of experience?
- As a quasi-court, the OEB is all legal formalism.
- Now I love formalism, if it reaches sensible results, and if it rests on formal distinctions that make sense.
- The military's formalism and self-regard has often made it the butt of civilian humour.
- I am not going to argue for the virtues of formalism.
- From the highest to the lowest, all were entangled in a subtle web of mutual espionage, and every element of individuality was crushed under the weight of unbending formalism.
- Our ability to make these judgments is critically important, because it opens the door to constitutional formalism - the depoliticization of the process of constitutional adjudication.
- The other influence is the realization that formalism is ‘a dead-end street.’
- A general consensus exists as to his anxiety to shed a load of cultural baggage - academic formalism, received ideas and above all the debased French tradition of naive musical imitations of nature.
- The name of Cambridge, and the global reputation of the university, offer a unique opportunity for the architecture school to lead on the world scale as a proponent of an alternative credo to the obscuratism and formalism of other schools.
Synonyms conventionality, traditionalism, orthodoxy, fitting in, following the crowd, running with the pack, swimming with the stream - 1.1 The use of forms of worship without regard to inner significance.
Example sentencesExamples - He shared a nineteenth-century German dislike for religious formalism and ceremony.
- Juridical formalism is but a substitute for religious formalism.
- The Bishop is not just being a slave to formalism.
- Evangelicity, in other words, guards against ecclesial formalism by breaching the walls of institutional isolationism.
- After decades of dead formalism in denominational churches, the charismatic movement seemed to bring great spiritual freedom.
- 1.2 The basing of ethics on the form of the moral law without regard to intention or consequences.
Example sentencesExamples - Analytic ethics has been very fairly impoverished given the postivist legacy of emotivism, the formalism of Kantian ethics and the technicalism of utilitarianism.
- But I was interested in the degree to which his vision was essentially pragmatist, or to be more specific, formalism justified by pragmatism.
- When it comes to the philosophical issue of the nature of truth, most mathematicians fall into one of two camps called formalism and Platonism.
- Despite the substantial contributions he had made to topology by this time, Brouwer chose to give his inaugural professorial lecture on intuitionism and formalism.
- They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
- Formalists claim that legal realism is not true to the rule of law; realists respond that despite what formalists say, formalism isn't how the law really works.
- Throughout his career, Sturr integrated pristine formalism with a tender humanism.
- Gadamer uses Kant's aesthetic formalism to illustrate this point.
- Waismann criticized both logicism and formalism.
- But at least it's better than formalism, logicism, intuitionism, constructivism or Platonism.
- For students steeped in late classical formalism, myself included, Lachmann's message of radical subjectivism was strange stuff indeed.
- 1.3 Concern or excessive concern with form and technique rather than content in artistic creation.
Example sentencesExamples - In this fertile period he has embraced aspects of classicism, formalism, surrealism and most obviously, postmodernism.
- They used their bodies to challenge modernist formalism, traditional relationships between artist and medium, and the boundaries between artist, spectator, and mass culture.
- In this way, neoclassicism's insistent formalism did little to close the gap between style and meaning.
- Seeing as how pop music thrives on various levels of artifice, questions of authenticity aren't typically worth the effort, but it's hard not to hear more formalism than feeling in these rustic songs.
- Coercive, manipulative attempts to recur to the symbolic (to enlist the unconscious mind) end in dead formalism, like bad adolescent prose and most modern poetry.
- The brothers are often accused of empty formalism, offering up homages to film genres but lacking soul.
- His music combined dazzling bursts of musical light with Gallic elegance and the rigorous formalism of a classicist.
- The rival personae can contradict each other, so that the poetry is pulled one way and the other, between the extremes of sterile formalism and sloganeering.
- If we could just appreciate the rightness of formalism over ‘ideas’ then we'd be on the right track.
- Desolation has become global and the photographer's world is decidedly anchored in formalism.
- Though the Hives open themselves up to style-over-substance gripes, there is real feeling amidst their artifice and formalism.
- This essay praised Propp's work, but pointed out that the problem with formalism was its policy of ignoring thematic content.
- Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
- Here, he used the intimacy of video to infiltrate the intense, distancing formalism of modernist dwellings and let us peer into some fanciful dramas unfolding within them.
- The best work on the show fluctuates between two greatly differing styles, one a kind of elemental formalism, the other a figurative, narrative post-modernism.
- In its hostility towards formalism, Performance art related to other contemporary movements, including Conceptual art and Environmental art.
- This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
- A slew of sculptors have emerged in Los Angeles in the last few years, but most seem stuck in either constrictive formalism or murky surrealism.
- Judd's thesis augured the inevitable evolution of Modern art into pure formalism and object-ness.
- Geczy's basic argument is that craft without an idea is simple formalism, a naïve tendency that can lead to all sorts of dark consequences.
- 1.4 (in the theater) a symbolic and stylized manner of production.
- 1.5 The treatment of mathematics as a manipulation of meaningless symbols.
Example sentencesExamples - He approaches the subject with a physics-first attitude that allows the student to get to the fun parts without spending months learning formalism.
- Brouwer emphasizes, as he had done in his dissertation, that formalism presupposes contentual mathematics at the metalevel.
- He has also made this formalism more useful for practical calculations.
- The other basic version of formalism likens the practice of mathematics to a game played with linguistic characters.
Synonyms dogmatism, purism, literalism
2A description of something in formal mathematical or logical terms. Example sentencesExamples - Qualitative modeling provides formalisms for expressing intuitive, causal models and the reasoning techniques needed to generate predictions and explanations from them for helping students see the consequences of their ideas.
- A wide range of plant-modeling formalisms is possible, depending on the category of system being controlled.
- The Maximum Likelihood section provides the details of the mathematical formalisms and computations.
- The mathematics of self-reference involves creating formalisms to reflect the strange situation in which something produces A, which produces B, which produces A.
- Pi-calculus and related formalisms are complex, but business people couldn't care less about formalisms.
- Your proposal, therefore, has to give us a finite theory which combines these two formalisms.
- Some subjectivity exists in the choice between models having few parameters, which favour the accuracy of their estimation, and more complex formalisms that are generally required to express ideas on biological processes.
- These logical formalisms are applied and tested in applications in other sciences, in everyday phenomena or in logic and mathematics themselves.
- In the following subsections, we present the mathematical structures and focus on the mathematical soundness of the formalisms.
- Yet the development of the general theory of relativity introduced Einstein to the power of abstract mathematical formalisms, notably that of tensor calculus.
- Let us illustrate how a control strategy can be described qualitatively, using typical formalisms in qualitative physics.
- But, in the past, technology ended up generating objects - while science ended up generating rules and embedding them or expressing them in formalisms.
- It argues that qualitative formalisms and reasoning engines provide the means necessary to support learners in developing such conceptual models.
- Any attempt to disprove the theory of evolution using thermodynamics will require proper formalisms.
- This article highlights the mathematical foundations of formalisms proposed to mimic human qualitative reasoning along with potential and limitations.
- A synergy between the development of theoretical formalisms, modeling and experimental work is fundamental to addressing the nanoelectronic challenges.
- Lachmann asked modern Austrians to rebel against the equilibrium models and logical formalisms of contemporary economic reasoning.
- The most simple formalisms link crop growth to fertilization regime or to time, expressed in days or in time units (cumulative degree-days) from sowing.
- However, the formalisms that I'd learned in 1968 were out of date, and I understood only vaguely what the new ideas were and how they had been motivated.
- These formalisms do not adequately describe cases where the enzyme or substrate are membrane bound.
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