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formalism

/fawr-muh-liz-uhm/US // ˈfɔr məˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈfɔːməˌlɪzəm) //

形式主义,形式论,形态主义,形式化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • Accounting for these scenarios has forced researchers to develop new mathematical formalisms and ways of thinking.

  • 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.

  • 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.