Is physics axiomatic? I say yes, but we don’t get to choose the axioms. Nature, through experiment, does that for us.
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One can't say that physics is axiomatic without having an elementary set of laws or rules that serve as axioms. Makes me think that physics isn't axiomatic but parts of it like QFT or ED are. It's like a collection of separate axiomatic domains which may or may not be unifiable.
That elementary set of laws or rules that we take at face value I would call "physical axioms", if I may coin such a term. They are inductive observations which we take as true in order to make deductions therefrom. Determining these "physical axioms" is done through observation.
