Definition of "formalization" [formalization]

• The act of formalizing something (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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"