What is the meaning of formalism?

noun

  • The doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented.
  • 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)
  • The practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms. .
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