Of all people, a formalist will be the last to say otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Conscience of Jack Goldsmith:] Reference
This "close reading" may seem deliberately old-fashioned and "formalist," because it is. From Wordnik.com. [My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem] Reference
This led to the composer being severely criticised as "formalist" in the notorious. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Wylie's poem assumes the "formalist" view of mathematics, as summed up by Bertrand Russell. From Wordnik.com. [The RBC] Reference
It will also give us real insights into whether there is a working majority on the court for a "formalist" approach to the separation of powers. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
"Zhdanov decree" of 1948., the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op 87, (1951) was also criticized at the Composer's union for being too abstract and "formalist". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
A veritable blueprint of "formalist" close reading in. From Wordnik.com. [History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin] Reference
'formalist' nor a practitioner of the monotonous free-verse 'plain style' many of her contemporaries have been stuck in since the 1960s. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This is not the prayer of the city-bred formalist. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
“No contemporary analytic jurisprudent is a formalist”. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in Legal Philosophy] Reference
There is a canonical objection against Curry's formalist position. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Pharisee, of formalist with mystic, of the disciples of one infallible. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
The duty of a magistrate to be just, precedes that of being a formalist. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The moralist and the formalist still make their voice heard, and will always do so. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
The free-thinker hated the formalist, the lover of liberty detested the disciplinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
But, of course, Ms. Mehretu would not wish her works to be read as formalist exercises. From Wordnik.com. [A Whirl of Frenetic Markings and Vestigial Imagery] Reference
Do we really think that the formalist ignorance of Judge Duffy or the market optimism of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The definition, when fully unpacked, has representational, formalist and expressivist elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Art] Reference
Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate. From Wordnik.com. [An Address] Reference
Walton's anti-formalist argument hinges on two main theses, one psychological and one philosophical. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of the Aesthetic] Reference
The next, he was an adversary whose complex art-for-art's-sake style of music was labeled formalist. From Wordnik.com. [Shostakovich Fans Look for Music's Political Meaning] Reference
The slide towards this sort of formalist attitude to axioms can also be traced through Frege's logicism. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics] Reference
In an early, formalist poem, he anticipated passing "toward the last gates," his soul "purified of Time by Time.". From Wordnik.com. ['Holy The Bop Apocalypse!'] Reference
Argues for a “moderate” formalist view that allows that things can be “dependently beautiful,” in Kant's sense. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic Judgment] Reference
On the formalist view, a minimal requirement of formal systems of higher mathematics is that they are at least consistent. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
But Goethe was not a formalist, and he was very far from the static conception of life which is at the base of pure morphology. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
"The symphony is like the world, it must encompass everything," he told Sibelius, a formalist who didn't buy his argument at all. From Wordnik.com. [Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs] Reference
The purely syntactical approach was prevalent in the formalist philosophy of mathematics of Hilbert, Bernays, and their disciples. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Malevich died in 1935, an impoverished and intimidated "bourgeois formalist," argot for artists unacceptable to Soviet officialdom. From Wordnik.com. [If This Picture Could Talk] Reference
Architecture for the last 100 years has had this dichotomy where you're either a formalist or a functionalist, but that's bull. From Wordnik.com. [Joshua Prince-Ramus On The Myth Of Architectural Genius] Reference
Hilbert proposed his general formalist research project for the axiomatic formalization of mathematics, which he also extended to physics. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Science] Reference
We adhere to essential institutions and would rather not create anything than create something with an exclusively formal or formalist character. From Wordnik.com. [6TH REVOLUTIN ANNIVERSARY] Reference
Dewey notes that formalist art critic Roger Fry spoke of relations of lines and colors coming to be full of passionate meaning within the artist. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference
Carnap's rational reconstructions and formalist explications and Neurath's and Frank's empirically informed and practice-oriented reconceptualizations. From Wordnik.com. [Vienna Circle] Reference
“Let your husband come to me, good dame,” said the goldsmith, who, with all his experience and worth, was somewhat of a formalist and disciplinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
If one adopts his methodological stance it is, in particular, hardly possible to hold on to narrowly formalist, empiricist, and intuitionist views about mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics] Reference
You can detect hymn-like solemnity, minimalist toccatas and formalist fugues, tonality and atonality, musical self-reference, as well as nods towards folk and klezmer. From Wordnik.com. [Shostakovich: The Preludes and Fugues/ Alexander Melnikov (piano)] Reference
Of course, this argument for Replacement Naturalism only seems to work against “formalist” theories of adjudication that are committed to the rational determinacy of law. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in Legal Philosophy] Reference
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