The process of reducing a theory or system to its fundamental, self-evident principles or axioms.
From 'axiomatize' (to reduce to axioms) plus the noun suffix '-tion'. Emerged in mathematical and logical discourse during the 19th-20th centuries.
Axiomatization is like cleaning out your room and organizing it by finding the few essential rules that explain everything else—mathematicians do this to prove their systems are logically sound.
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