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  • noun the act of formalizing something

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  • noun the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions)

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Examples

  • I'm sure some mathematical physicists would like to think that formalization is going out of fashion, but that's certainly not the trend from where I sit.

    Memetic Suicide, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The increased role of mathematical formalization is also strongly reflected in the awards, important examples being the Prizes to Samuelson, Hicks, Arrow, Koopmans, Kantorovich, Debreu, Allais, as well as the Laureates in mechanism design, financial economics and game theory.

    The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006 2010

  • Formalization obtains inhuman, machine-like powers of iterability in these de Manian readings, and formalization is all the more dangerous when it has been aestheticized and thereby rendered, fallaciously, a property of the

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • Detlefsen's other argument against the common interpretation of Gödel's second theorem focuses on the notion of formalization: That the particular formalization of “T is consistent” by Gödel's formula

    Hilbert's Program Zach, Richard 2003

  • And so here, at the risk of being accused of contradiction, we wish to reintroduce the notion of formalization.

    The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

  • And so here, at the risk of being accused of contradiction, we wish to reintroduce the notion of formalization.

    The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

  • A metatheory of science requires a kind of formalization different from that already employed by scientific theories themselves.

    Structuralism in Physics Schmidt, Heinz-Juergen 2008

  • What emerged from his hut in the Black Forest was not the independent verification of the New Testament that Bultmann's apologetic project required; rather, Being and Time was a sort of translation or "formalization" of the Pauline vision.

    Archive 2007-11-01 enowning 2007

  • What emerged from his hut in the Black Forest was not the independent verification of the New Testament that Bultmann's apologetic project required; rather, Being and Time was a sort of translation or "formalization" of the Pauline vision.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • One important reason for the successes of modern logic is its use of what has been called "formalization".

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

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