axiomatizing
/ˌæksiˈæmətaɪzɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of axiomatize: the act of expressing a set of ideas or rules as a formal system of basic principles.
- The students practiced axiomatizing simple logical statements in class.
- Axiomatizing a complex theory can take many years of careful work.
- The mathematician is axiomatizing a new branch of geometry.
noun
- The process or activity of creating a formal system of basic principles.
- He wrote a book about the axiomatizing of arithmetic.
- Axiomatizing is an important step in making a theory rigorous.
- The axiomatizing of physics helped scientists agree on fundamental laws.