formalism

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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

They used the matrix formalism combined with the conventional inverse problem-solving methodology to find the optimal performance and the final configuration of the solar device.

From Science Daily

It doesn’t have to be this way, but deeply engrained formalism in court plays right into Trump’s hands.

From Salon

What followed was investigation of the surprisingly far-reaching consequences of the formalism.

From Science Daily

“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