English
Detailed Synonyms for formalism in English
formalism:
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the formalism
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the formalism
– the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms 1 -
the formalism
– the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented 1 -
the formalism
– (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications 1