The word "formalism" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an approach to understanding or interpreting something based on the forms or structures of that thing, as opposed to its content. For example, one might take a formalist approach when interpreting a literary work, focusing on the structure of it rather than what the work is trying to convey.
These frameworks arose both as attempts to recover the simplicity of the type-free approach, as derived from the so-called naive comprehension principle, as well as in order to satisfy metamathematical needs, such as the clarification of fundamental concepts underlying the notions of "formal system," "formalism," "rule," etc.
Feminists point out that analyses of whether such statutes place undue burdens on women's rights in terms of formal legal barriers manifest legal formalism that conceals the reality of ongoing oppression or inequality of opportunity.
This volume probably marks the peak in the philosophical production of the two circles, for it presents classics such as the first part of Pfänder's On the Psychology of Sentiments, Geiger's Contributions to the Phenomenology of Aesthetic Enjoyment, the first part of Scheler's Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values and Reinach's The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law.
In Formalism in Ethics and a Non-Formal Ethics of Value, Scheler builds upon these analyses to describe the distinctive types of communities in which human beings participate.
Yet after Stalin's exit from the Bolshoi, an article in Pravda condemned the opera, declaring that the "ability of good music to enthral the masses is sacrificed on the altar of petty-bourgeois formalism".
In a stream of papers they have found strong evidence that civil-law countries encourage government ownership of the media and banks, a higher burden of entry into business, more labour-market regulation and greater formalism of court procedures to their detriment, they claim.Perhaps such arguments can never be resolved.
That year he read out a draconian speech which condemned Shostakovich and Prokofiev for their formalism, accusing Prokofiev of "grunting and scraping".
Shostakovich was accused of "formalism": Soviet-speak for any style that seemed too close to Western modernism.
It was announced in April and formally launched in June with a speech by Mr Xi to the Politburo calling for a "thorough clean-up" of the party to rid it of "formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance".
Famous for his ideological formalism, the architect was a pioneer of the International Style.
This appointment, coinciding with Stalin's campaign against "formalism" and "rootless cosmopolitans" proved as much a curse as a reward.
