algebraism

plural algebraisms

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

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

   1986, Nils Århammar, Aspects of Language: Theoretical and applied semantics, page 377

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   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.

   1951, Paul Arthur Schilpp, Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist, page 572

   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.

   1988, Carl A. Raschke, Theological Thinking, page 31

   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.

   1992, George E. Marcus, Rereading Cultural Anthropology, page 5

   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.

   2013, Katherine Munn, Barry Smith, Applied Ontology: An Introduction, page 77