Just as there is a classical definition of probability, and an axiomatic definition followed thereafter, perhaps fuzziness too should have an axiomatic definition. Please give your comments.
I am not aware of this kind of definition. I think that the reason may be as follows:
Probability is a very old concept. At that time, set theory was not established. So, people at that time defined it as it is in the classical definition. When set theory was discovered, people have to reform the old definitions with this new perspective. Whereas fuzzy set theory is quite a recent idea. So, people directly defined it in terms of a universal set and an existence of a membership function. Similarly, fuzzy number and fuzzy logic are also defined keeping in mind the modern concepts of set theory and function.