mathematicizingadj.
/ˌmaθ(ə)ˈmatᵻsʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmæθ(ə)ˈmædəˌsaɪzɪŋ/ rare.
= mathematizing adj.
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1849 J. A. Froude Nemesis of Faith 161 To the dry mathematicizing reason, the Catholic, the Anglo-Catholic, the Lutheran, Calvinist, the Socinian, will be equally unacceptable.
1943 Jrnl. Philos. 40 710 My quarrel is with mathematicizing philosophers who confuse the fictions, altogether legitimate in mathematics, with physics or metaphysics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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