Formalism is the mathematical school of thought which holds that mathematics consists of symbols, rules for combining those symbols, some minimal number of assumptions or axioms, and certain agreed upon rules of inference. Formalism was introduced in...

// n. Any fully explicit notational device or set of such devices. The term can be applied, for example, to the Kleene star, to the X-bar system or to the entire framework of...

n. Any fully explicit notational device or set of such devices. Most approaches to phonology since the 1960s purport to be formalisms, though some are certainly more explicit and complete than...

An educational philosophy and practice that maintained formal relationships in the classroom; it was this practice that Dewey discouraged through his...

Formalism refers to a set of beliefs in philosophy, art, literature, or...