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Fuzzy Thinking - Bart Kosko

 

Description: ISBN 0006547133 / Author: Bart Kosko / Genre: Science / Nature / Fuzzy logic is the next wave in technology. Japanese electronics giants ... more
Fuzzy Thinking - Bart Kosko ... have, in the last ten years, already staked their commercial future on the benefits of fuzzy production; only recently have European and US companies begun to catch up. Fuzzy logic sanctifies vagueness. It prescribes a new way of thinking about machines, about science, ambiguity, confusion and contradiction.

Newest Review: ... one of a number of non-Aristotelian logics (not that the other types are included in this book). With fuzzy logic a thing can ... more

 ... be partially a member of this set and that. A chair can be a chair and a not-chair (so, is that cushion on the floor a chair or not?). Fuzzy logic allows you to use this fuzziness to reason with. Traditional logical operations such as AND, OR and NOT have their fuzzy equivalents, which Kosko goes into in great detail. He also makes sure that applications of fuzzy logic are covered, and this makes for some of the most interesting aspects of the book. However Kosko is more than interested in applications of fuzzy logi...more

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Premium Review Fuzzy Thinking - Bart Kosko: This statement is false (452 words)
by pan - written on 15/10/01 (Very useful, 284 readings)
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.....This statement is false..... Well, is it? If it's true, then it's not false. If it's not, then it contradicts itself again. It's this kind of logical paradox that has caused mathematicians and logicians no end of problems. The kind of logic that we use day to day doesn't allow for paradox. Aristotelian logic, (thanks to Aristotle one of those old Greek geezers), excludes paradox and indeterminancy. A thing either is or it isn't. A chair is chair or it isn't. Unfortunately the real world is not Aristotleian, it's fuzzy, indeterminate, messy. Fuzzy logic is one of a number of non-Aristotelian logics (not that the other ...

 

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