Formalism may refer to: *

Legal formalism Legal formalism is both a descriptive theory of how judges decide cases and a Normative, normative theory of how judges should decide Legal case, cases. In its descriptive sense, formalists maintain that judges reach their decisions by applying u ...

, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary *

Formalism (linguistics) In linguistics, the term formalism is used in a variety of meanings which relate to formal linguistics in different ways. In common usage, it is merely synonymous with a grammatical model or a syntactic model: a method for analyzing sentence str ...

* Scientific formalism * A rough synonym to the

Formal system A formal system is an abstract structure and formalization of an axiomatic system used for deducing, using rules of inference, theorems from axioms. In 1921, David Hilbert proposed to use formal systems as the foundation of knowledge in ma ...

, a mathematical model for deduction or proof systems. It also refers to a given style of

notation In linguistics and semiotics, a notation system is a system of graphics or symbols, Character_(symbol), characters and abbreviated Expression (language), expressions, used (for example) in Artistic disciplines, artistic and scientific disciplines ...

. * Formalism (Yarvin), relating to Curtis Yarvin's ideas within the

Dark Enlightenment The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary philosophical and political movement. A reaction against Enlightenment values, it favors a retur ...

Formalism (philosophy) The term ''formalism'' describes an emphasis on form over content or meaning in the arts, literature, or philosophy. A practitioner of formalism is called a ''formalist''. A formalist, with respect to some discipline, holds that there is no transc ...

, 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) In art history, formalism is the study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style. Its discussion also includes the way objects are made and their purely visual or material aspects. In painting, formalism emphasizes compositional elements su ...

, 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) Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence. Formalism rejects or sometimes simply ...

**** 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

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