different between axiomatize vs axiomize

English

Alternative forms

• axiomatise (mostly UK)
• axiomize

Etymology

axiomatic +? -ize

Verb

axiomatize (third-person singular simple present axiomatizes, present participle axiomatizing, simple past and past participle axiomatized)

1. To establish a set of axioms that describe or govern certain phenomena

Derived terms

• axiomatization

Related terms

• axiom
• axiomatic, axiomatic system

Translations

English

Verb

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

1. Alternative 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.

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

     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).

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

     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.