functionalism in English

noun
1
belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.
Impelled by Futurism and the functionalism of Communist Russia, his Impressionist painting style gave way to pure abstractions drawn with compass and ruler.

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1. 13 Its core idea is that functionalism rationalism.

2. Can anyone think of any more shortcoming of functionalism?

3. 21 Its functionalism was at least tempered by a grand conception of space.

4. Even at this moment of patriotic and quasi-mystical emotion, rationalized functionalism is expressed.

5. As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass, so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration.

6. 27 As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass, so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration.

7. Functionalism was formulated by Hilary Putnam and Jerry Fodor as a reaction to the inadequacies of the identity theory.

8. Foster indicates how commitment to relative autonomy of the political, ideological and economic generates accounts which look very like traditional functionalism.

9. 20 Foster indicates how commitment to relative autonomy of the political, ideological and economic generates accounts which look very like traditional functionalism.

10. It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology, functionalism on a ruling ideology.

11. Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis - Functionalism.

12. It is important to note that the above interpretation of the ideological basis of Marxism and functionalism is debatable.

13. 5 Functionalism in public law views this apparatus of government as serving to promote a distinct set of purposes.

14. 29 Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis - Functionalism.

15. 23 These characteristic ideas of functionalism are found running throughout the theories of sociological positivism, evolutionary social theories, and pragmatism.

16. Unfortunately[sentence dictionary], much of the drab utilitarianism of urban existence has come to be associated with the design philosophy of functionalism.

17. Brutalism emerged after the Second World War but was rooted in the ideas of functionalism and monumental simplicity that had defined earlier architectural modernism, including the International Style

18. The Clumped, irregular plan and the use of materials nicely illustrate their theories of functionalism inherited from the best practice of the masters of the Middle Ages

19. A complete artist or art historian is one who, by virtue of his high-class or even low-class professionality, more than ever before, implyingly and Applyingly, becomes a crusader for art functionalism or unpretentious art humanism

20. The Clumped, irregular plan and the use of materials nicely illustrate their theories of functionalism inherited from the best practice of the masters of the Middle Ages.: Le plan agglutiné, irrégulier, mais aussi l'utilisation des matériaux, illustrent leurs théories du fonctionnalisme hérité des bonnes pratiques des maîtres du Moyen Âge.: The method may include determining a noble