axiomize

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A form of axiomatize — To establish a set of axioms that describe or govern certain phenomena

Scrabble 26

Meanings

verbaxiomize (third-person singular simple present axiomizes, present participle axiomizing, simple past and past participle axiomized)

present singular third person axiomizes · participle present axiomizing · participle past axiomized · past axiomized

  1. alternativeAlternative form of axiomatize.

    1974, Metcalf, "General Discussion: Significance of the Sleep Parameters in Early Behavioral Development", in Basic Sleep Mechanisms, edited by Olga Petre-Quadens and John D. Schlag, Academic Press, page 405. We have elected to axiomize these from the viewpoint of EEG development.

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    Scholarly populism leads logically enough to inverting the traditional focus on production over use: even outside of textual studies, a historian of technology can axiomize that "the majority have always been mainly concerned with the operation and maintenance of things and processes; with the uses of things, not their invention or development" (Edgerton xv).

    2012, Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain, Princeton University Press, page 20

    Again, as argued in chapter 2 and throughout this book, Badiou is forced to axiomize, freeze, and distort Deleuze's thought in order to contrast it with his own, truer philosophy.

    2013, Clayton Crockett, Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event, Columbia University Press, page 139
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