Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Fuzzy Logic

One of the theoretical approach is called fuzzy logic, developed by American philosopher Lotfi Zadeh. Fuzzy logic proposes a gradual transition between "perfect falsity", for, for example, the statement "Bill Clinton is bald", to "perfect truth", for, say, "Patrick Stewart is bald". In ordinary logics, there are only two truth-values: "true" and "false". The fuzzy perspective differs by introducing an infinite number of truth-values along a spectrum between perfect truth and perfect falsity. Perfect truth may be represented by "1", and perfect falsity by "0". Borderline cases are thought of as having a "truth-value" anywhere between 0 and 1 (for example, 0.6).

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