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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A return to formalism is highly unlikely given popular expectations of individualized justice. ▪ However, communication with users and clients is not necessarily helped by the use of formalism . ▪ It demonstrates the limitations ...
Wikipedia
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Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence. Formalism rejects (or sometimes simply "brackets," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented [ant: imitation ] (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, "strict adherence to prescribed forms," from formal + -ism . Used over the years in philosophy, theology, literature, and art in various senses suggesting detachment of form from content, or spirituality, or meaning; or belief in the sufficiency of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Formalism \Form"al*ism\ (f[^o]rm"al*[i^]z'm), n. The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion. Official formalism. --Sir H. Rawlinson.
Usage examples of formalism.
The problem encountered by the Copenhagen and Many-Worlds Interpretations is that the Afshar Experiment has identified a situation in which these popular interpretations of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the quantum formalism itself.
Thus, the Transactional interpretation is completely consistent with the results of the Afshar Experiment and with the quantum formalism.
Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Julian Schwinger, Freeman Dyson, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Feynman, to name a few, struggled relentlessly to find a mathematical formalism capable of dealing with this microscopic obstreperousness.
Surely such redescription is impossible where we have no description to begin with -- no meanings, nothing to redescribe -- that is, where we are dealing with a completed formalism.
Whoever had written this had been church-educated, certainly, for the lettering paraded down the page with a trace of Aostan formalism.
Surely the very kidneys of wisdom, Florence Green has only one kidney, I have a kidney stone, Baskerville was stoned by the massed faculty of the Famous Writers School upon presentation of his first lesson: he was accused of formalism.
We can translate these words into a mathematical formalism that describes real-world experiments with amazing accuracy.
The mathematical formalism of his theory, however, could be extended fairly directly to write down analogous equations for a universe with additional space dimensions.
The calculational formalism shows that the larger the string coupling constant, the more likely it is that quantum jitters will cause an initial string to split apart (and subsequently rejoin).
According to quantum mechanics, the universe evolves according to a rigorous and precise mathematical formalism, but this framework determines only the probability that any particular future will happen—not which future actually ensues.
When I was buried they would be written on a sheet of paper narrow as my thumb, in the symbols of Formalisms & Transformations, and tucked between my breasts and buried with me.
The question was, would Hifalutin Magic do it, or did I have to move clear on up to Formalisms & Transformations?
Macon Desirard Guthrie was no common person, but a man skilled in Formalisms & Transformations.
She had cast Spells half the night, she’d done Formalisms & Transformations till her hands ached, and she’d gotten only one answer.
There was a reading of the Articles of the Confederation, with a commentary to follow from the senior Magician of Rank pointing out the satisfying parallels between the structure of the Articles and the notations of Formalisms & Transformations.