formalism

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So why did it take 40 years for the natural combination of Écalle's formalism and the application to tunneling phenomena to be taken to their logical conclusion?

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

“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 • Oct. 22, 2023

But art thrives on contradictions, and the age-old tensions between faith and desire, between dogmatic formalism and wild, unruly feeling, were precisely what made Davies such a magnificently expressive artist.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2023

But disillusionment quickly set in: Mochizuki had spent 20 years single-handedly developing no fewer than 500 pages of a completely new formalism that other experts needed to decipher.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023

It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez