Fuzzy Logic
Background
- 1800s Georg Cantor
- 1937 Max Black "Vagueness: an exercise in logical analysis"
- 1951 Ludwig von Bertalanffy on general systems theory
- 1965 paper by Lotfi Zadeh on fuzzy set theory
- 1993 'Fuzzy Logic' by Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiburger
Links:
- Fuzzy Logic Archive [The Net's Original Fuzzy Logic Archive - Since 1994] Fuzzy Logic [Wikipedia]
- Fuzzy sets and systems [more links]
For examples of current research, go to this page and download the PDF file of abstracts from the 26th Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory: Fuzzy Logics and Related Structures, held in February 2005. I do not have the background to understand this, but I love the idea of fuzzy and crisp data. Partial membership in a set is such a useful concept, even if it violates the principle of bivalence. Classical logic is too tied to binary T/F choices--fine if you're playing word games with syllogisms, useless if you're looking at complex, real-world problems.
This is a day of new beginnings,
time to remember and move on,
time to believe what love is bringing,
laying to rest the pain that's gone.
For by the life and death of Jesus,
God's mighty Spirit, now as then,
can make for us a world of difference,
as faith and hope are born again.
--Brian Wren
This is a day of new beginnings, 1978, alt.
(1st 2 verses)
time to remember and move on,
time to believe what love is bringing,
laying to rest the pain that's gone.
For by the life and death of Jesus,
God's mighty Spirit, now as then,
can make for us a world of difference,
as faith and hope are born again.
--Brian Wren
This is a day of new beginnings, 1978, alt.
(1st 2 verses)
