Formalism

Formalism may refer to:

• Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary
• Formalism (linguistics)
• Scientific formalism
• A rough synonym to the Formal system, a mathematical model for deduction or proof systems. It also refers to a given style of notation.
• Formalism (Yarvin), relating to Curtis Yarvin's ideas within the Dark Enlightenment
• Formalism (philosophy), that there is no transcendent meaning to a discipline other than the literal content created by a practitioner
• Religious formalism, an emphasis on the ritual and observance of religion, rather than its meaning.
• Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), or mathematical formalism, that statements of mathematics and logic can be thought of as statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules.
• Formalism (art), that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its form
• Formalism (music)
• Formalist film theory, focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film
• Formalism (literature)
• New Formalism, a late-20th century movement in American poetry – sometimes called simply "Formalism"
• Russian formalism, school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s
• New Formalism (architecture), a mid-20th century architectural style, sometimes abbreviated to Formalism

See also

• Form (disambiguation)
• Formal (disambiguation)