Formalism

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Formalism may refer to:

• Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary
• Formalism (linguistics)
• Scientific formalism
• Formalism (philosophy), that there is no transcendent meaning to a discipline other than the literal content created by a practitioner
  • Religious formalism, an emphasis on the ritual and observance of religion, rather than its meaning.
  • Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), or mathematical formalism, that statements of mathematics and logic can be thought of as statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules.
  • Formalism (art), that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form
    • Formalism (music)
    • Formalist film theory, focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film
    • Formalism (literature)
      • New Formalism, a late-20th century movement in American poetry – sometimes called simply "Formalism"
      • Russian formalism, school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s
    • New Formalism (architecture), a mid-20th century architectural style, sometimes abbreviated to Formalism

See also

• Form (disambiguation)
• Formal (disambiguation)

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