Meanings of functionalism in English

In such phrases, we grasp the essential difference between formalism and functionalism.

Darwinian functionalism works by local adaptation of integral organisms to immediate environments.

Using Paley's own device of analogy to machines, Owen undermines functionalism from within.

The plainness of the whole lent it gravity and a certain functionalism which was not inappropriate.

However, Eimer chose Lamarckism as the preferred external potentiator for his "brand" of functionalism.

Geoffroy regarded "top" and "bottom" as subjective terms of a secondary and derivative functionalism.

To render this connection meaningful, the converse must also hold: functionalism must correlate with denial of constraint.

All these arguments merge into a structuralist critique that seriously challenges the predominant functionalism of classical Darwinism.

Technology's natural functionalism has an intrinsic beauty.

Others appreciated this reincarnation of formalism vs. functionalism, and cheered from the sidelines or within the fray.

We are children of Darwin, and an English school of adaptation and functionalism far older than evolutionary theory.

One of the most admired and influential architects and city planners whose work combines functionalism and bold sculptural expression.

It's more hyper-thoughtfulness, playful functionalism and an attention to the matters in hand that persistently looks beyond the standard solutions.

On the largely rhetorical subject of glory, Owen joined Agassiz in refuting the Paleyan link of functionalism to God's beneficence.

The book had begun to develop into an attack on functionalism which (Berger suspected) would cause a furor.

McCosh expresses the two key ideas in religious terms as natural illustrations of "lofty wisdom" (formalism) and "providential care" (functionalism).