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formalism

[ fawr-muh-liz-uhm ]

noun

  1. strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  2. Religion. strong attachment to external forms and observances.
  3. Ethics. a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences.
  4. 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

/ 藞蹿蓴藧尘蓹藢濒瑟锄蓹尘 /

noun

  1. scrupulous or excessive adherence to outward form at the expense of inner reality or content
    1. the mathematical or logical structure of a scientific argument as distinguished from its subject matter
    2. the notation, and its structure, in which information is expressed
  2. theatre a stylized mode of production
  3. (in Marxist criticism) excessive concern with artistic technique at the expense of social values, etc
  4. 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
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of formalism1

First recorded in 1830鈥40; formal 1 + -ism
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And because of that, there鈥檚 a very rigid formalism to it, on just the formatting level.

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They used the matrix formalism combined with the conventional inverse problem-solving methodology to find the optimal performance and the final configuration of the solar device.

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It doesn鈥檛 have to be this way, but deeply engrained formalism in court plays right into Trump鈥檚 hands.

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What followed was investigation of the surprisingly far-reaching consequences of the formalism.

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鈥淚s there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence鈥攁 formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,鈥 they ask of the world鈥檚 disparate phenomena.

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