formalists in a sentence
Examples
- More recent criticisms lie in the assertion of formalists that it is possible to computerize all of mathematics.
- Hence, members of various schools, especially realists and formalists, have traced their origins to his work.
- In a descriptive sense, formalists believe that judges reach their decisions by applying uncontroversial principles to the facts.
- In other words, for the Formalists, literature is set apart because it is just that : set apart.
- One frequent effect approximates what Viktor Shklovsky and the Russian formalists identified as defamiliarization or " ostranenie ".
- In his company, the five contemporary photographers on the same walls often look like formalists in search of distinctive signatures.
- The formalists agreed on the autonomous nature of poetic language and its specificity as an object of study for literary criticism.
- Formalists believe that the relevant principles of law of a given area can be discerned by surveying the case law of that area.
- Many formalists would say that in practice, the axiom systems to be studied are suggested by the demands of the particular science.
- Formalists hold that the law must be prospective, well-known, and have characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty.