Formalism
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(philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
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- the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
- §2
- the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
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- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
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