Formalist in A Sentence

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    It will use computational stylistics for a formalist discrimination of patterns of language in the texts and will thus begin with a descriptive base.

    2

    The extreme formalist is guilty of a fallacy of composition in regard to abstraction.

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    The formalist accretions of English prosody can be very tasking and restrictive - prescriptive even, as in any other language.

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    There is an epistemological logic with sometimes formalist, sometimes methodological leanings.

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    To the formalist proper it was self-condemned in its pretension to develop the content of thought and its rejection of the formula of bare-identity.

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    Yet Malachi himself is no mere formalist.