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formalism

[fawr-muh-liz-uhm] / ˈfɔr məˌlɪz əm /




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And because of that, there’s a very rigid formalism to it, on just the formatting level.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

So why did it take 40 years for the natural combination of Écalle's formalism and the application to tunneling phenomena to be taken to their logical conclusion?

From Science Daily Apr. 26, 2024

“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2023

But disillusionment quickly set in: Mochizuki had spent 20 years single-handedly developing no fewer than 500 pages of a completely new formalism that other experts needed to decipher.

From Scientific American Jul. 28, 2023

It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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