How do you use Formalism in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like doctrine or practice, plus the exact meaning.
Formalism meaning
- Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
- One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
Synonyms of Formalism
Using Formalism
- The main meaning on this page is: Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc. | One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory. | An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
- Useful related words include: doctrine, practice, philosophical theory, philosophical doctrine.
- In the example corpus, formalism often appears in combinations such as: the formalism, formalism of, this formalism.
Context around Formalism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Formalism
- In this selection, "formalism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, quantum, lagrangian, new, used, movement and examines stand out and add context to how "formalism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about our formalism such as and according to formalism mathematical truths. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "formalism" sits close to words such as abrasive, adjournment and amalgamation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with formalism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He formed his own kind of art and resisted formalism in art and music. (14 words)
Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry Journal (1981-1993), an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. (16 words)
Routine meetings between leaders of the Subcontinent will liberate the region from the formalism of summits. (16 words)
Deeper theorems from real analysis were not included, but by the end of the third volume it was clear to experts that a large amount of known mathematics could in principle be developed in the adopted formalism. (37 words)
An asteroid discovered in 1983 was named after Dirac. citation Publications * The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930): This book summarises the ideas of quantum mechanics using the modern formalism that was largely developed by Dirac himself. (36 words)
Any of the several well-known axiomatisations will do; we assume without proof all the basic well-known results about our formalism (such as the normal form theorem or the soundness theorem ) that we need. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Formalism is primarily concerned with style and how it communicates ideas, emotions, and themes (rather than, as critics of formalism point out, concentrating on the themes of a work itself).
Since these real properties, fixed in advance of observation, are not contained in quantum formalism, that formalism for EPR is incomplete.
This formalism is analogous to the Lagrangian formalism used in classical mechanics to solve for the motion of a particle under the influence of a field.
Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry Journal (1981-1993), an advance guard of the New Formalism movement.
Open at the Albuquerque Museum, “Cartoon Formalism” examines Funk Art, a combination of both styles transformed into intensely personal imagery.
He challenged superstition, formalism in religion, caste, creed, sex and colour consciousness and awakened men to their inner self which has emanated from a Universal Self.
Routine meetings between leaders of the Subcontinent will liberate the region from the formalism of summits.
He formed his own kind of art and resisted formalism in art and music.
It’s a meticulously calculated piece, yet one that flows naturally, springing as if fully formed from the Earth, grounding musical formalism in folk celebration while telling a tale of historical fantasy.
According to formalism, mathematical truths are not about numbers and sets and triangles and the like—in fact, they are not "about" anything at all.
Although he was initially ignored by the academic community, he furthered his work on the field of heat theory and discovered one after another the same thermodynamical formalism as Gibbs without realizing it.
An asteroid discovered in 1983 was named after Dirac. citation Publications * The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930): This book summarises the ideas of quantum mechanics using the modern formalism that was largely developed by Dirac himself.
Another formalism mathematically equivalent to regular expressions, Finite automata are used in circuit design and in some kinds of problem-solving.
Any of the several well-known axiomatisations will do; we assume without proof all the basic well-known results about our formalism (such as the normal form theorem or the soundness theorem ) that we need.
As a matter of convenience, usage of naive set theory and its formalism prevails even in higher mathematics including in more formal settings of set theory itself.
Deeper theorems from real analysis were not included, but by the end of the third volume it was clear to experts that a large amount of known mathematics could in principle be developed in the adopted formalism.
Elastic continuum theory In this formalism, a liquid crystal material is treated as a continuum; molecular details are entirely ignored.
Examples Place assimilation in nasals Place assimilation in nasals The autosegmental formalism can be especially useful in describing assimilation rules.
Extensions An obvious way to extend the context-free grammar formalism is to allow nonterminals to have arguments, the values of which are passed along within the rules.
For a discussion of the provenance of the phrase "shut up and calculate", see citation Other approaches to resolve conceptual problems introduce new mathematical formalism, and so propose alternative theories with their interpretations.
Common combinations with formalism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the formalism 17×
- formalism of 11×
- this formalism 10×
- formalism is 9×
- formalism in 8×
- mathematical formalism 6×
- formalism and 6×
- formalism to 6×
- formalism that 5×
- quantum formalism 4×