The phrase "a precise formulation of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to explain that something has been clearly and accurately defined. For example, "The scientist provided a precise formulation of the theory of relativity."
Some Christian philosophers declared it to be a nonchallenge, on the ground that the positivists never succeeded in finding a precise formulation of the verification criterion that was fully satisfactory even to themselves.
A precise formulation of this problem is given later.
We turn now to the task of providing a precise formulation of Quine's criterion.
For a precise formulation of the weaker compositionality principle, see Pagin and Pelletier (2007).
Barwise's formal analysis gives a precise formulation of Harman's intuitive analysis of common knowledge as a fixed point.
Weyl transform notation is helpful for obtaining a precise formulation of the Hardy-Ramanujan master theorem and Ramanujan's interpolation formula.
(See Zabell 2005 for a precise formulation and exposition of the de Finetti theorem and Jeffrey 1983, Section 12.6, for a more brief and accessible account).
This solution can be used as an initialization point for a more precise formulation of the problem.
Therefore, there is a lack of a precise formulation that allows the use of real positive numbers to properly design spline-based digital filters.
The hope is to obtain a quantity useful for general statements about isolated systems, such as a more precise formulation of the hoop conjecture.
The correspondence principle on this reading is understood broadly as the attempt to get a mathematically precise formulation of the classical limit.
