Formalisms

This is a classic example of where conservativism uses formalisms to cover a deep lack of basic morality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Programmers, on the other hand, are handed syntactic formalisms of the language of interest and expected to work from that point. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Poetry in British Romanticism (1997), as well as several essays on aspects of Romantic forms and formalisms; ❋ Unknown (2008)

He appears to have have skirted the actual formalisms of church hierarchy, being more interested in the access his credentials provided to the science and diplomatic actives of the church. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The motor force of the modernist movement was freedom of self expression, the rebellion against the constraints of all formalisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If I may add some formalisms here to show why I think your objection, although reasonable, is misplaced. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Students of English as a second language who plan to do business in North America can become confused by jargon and formalisms that sometimes invade business correspondence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We're ultimately not as interested in the formalisms of market equilibrium as we are in an analysis of the institutions that define the context of economic activity. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

Most philosophers train students in a variety of well dug formalisms -- most of them with endless and rather well established "puzzles", i.e. conceptual intractibilities which provide endless opening for continued study and further philosophical "research." ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Conformal structure, for instance, can be realised on many different types of ˜individuals™: manifold points, twisters or multivectors ¦ What is real, the spacetime structuralist will claim, is the structure itself and not the manner in which alternative formalisms instantiate it” (25). ❋ Ladyman, James (2009)

Later, he was rather inclined to look at logical systems as formalisms having their own problems deserving research and as useful devices for solving various questions but not as something leading to the only “true” ontological scheme. ❋ Wole&324;ski, Jan (2009)

Although it is the rational purpose of a bureaucracy to use specialized talent effectively, bureaucratic organizations and institutions often emphasize formalisms and legalisms to such a degree that the perpetuation of the system takes precedence over whatever function it was intended to perform. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

Bayesian formalisms were not well-known, but were well-known enough for those interested to come across them, and they offered a good alternative to connectionism. ❋ Josh (2008)

He pointed out that rational choice theory doesn't have a lot of credibility in sociology, though there is a difference between the formalisms of rational choice theory and the more general concept of social action as guided by purposive, intentional agents. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

I have looked at a class of chaotic models using the formalisms of Decoherent Histories and Quantum Trajectories. ❋ Sean (2008)