Meaning of algebraism | Babel Free

Definitions

The use of abstract logic and symbol manipulation as opposed to empirical observation.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“It is on the basis of the synthesis of algebraism and scientific experiment that one may correctly designate the rationalistic revival implied in the doctrines of Einstein.”

“In fact, Jakobson is partly responsible for many misunderstandings about so-called abstractions and algebraisms in Hjelmslev 's linguistic research.”

“Empiricism in natural philosophy was matched by an advanced algebraism in mathematical thinking . The Russellian reformation, which actually amounted to a convergence of trends and experiments that had been going on throughout the nineteenth century , resulted in what might be characterized as a renewed , “ metaphysical ” — perhaps even a mystical— grounding for the philosophy of number.”

“Writing is an illness we cannot treat but only recover from. Our interests in dialog, poetry, and orality are vectors of a single urge to recover a sounding sense deadened by algebraisms without the sense of sound or the sound of sense.”

“Our dissatisfaction with algebraism arises from what we believe to be a reasonable skepticism concerning the arbitrary production of fictions for the sake of systematic neatness. We favor hunter-tatherer ontology, based on empirical evidence, rather than armchair ontology based on permutations and combinations.”

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