mathematicization

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Etymology edit

mathematic +‎ -ization

Noun edit

mathematicization (countable and uncountable, plural mathematicizations)

  1. The process or result of mathematicizing.
    • 2010, C. B. Martin, The Mind in Nature:
      It is there that the measures of quantities are suited to the mathematicizations of nature itself with its accruing necessities.
    • 2017, Edward Feser, Five Proofs for the Existence of God, page 45:
      Its “mathematicizations”, as Martin has called them, entail taking what Martin calls only a “partial consideration” of the phenomena studied.