...Russian Formalist theory argued that biography should be studied scientifically as the history of form, rather than as a history of personalities, ideas, or content. In other words, the study of literature is not philosophy, sociology, theology, or mythology, but an exact science of the primary...

...This chapter deals with the positions of nominalists and formalists. Discourse-criterion nominalists, obsessed with ontology worry about applied mathematics, and either engage in rewriting mathematical text to remove quantifier commitments to abstracta, or else steep themselves in the tangled...

... one might identify a ‘possible human language’ and Section 1.3 raises some background issues relevant to the determination of why some language types appear to be more probable than others. Section 1.4 focuses on the major differences between formalists and functionalists with respect...

...0 04 01 2001 Both strong and weak formalists who insist on the separation of ethics and aesthetics exhibit, I have suggested, a zeal for establishing a rightful place for the latter. Some theorists express a similar zeal in maintaining not only that the moral does not always come first but also...

... is, however, not a jurisprudential but an evidentiary one. Both formalists and realists agree that the dominant motor force in a system does not operate to the exclusion of all else. The rule of the angle of deflection provides the historian with a criterion by which to assess whether or not a specific jurist...

... the advent of legal realism, American jurisprudence began, if only hesitantly, to question the premisses of formalist legal thinking. It is shown that the great forerunners of American legal realism, Holmes and Pound, were not committed anti-formalists. formalism Langdell Christopher Columbus Langdellian...