Title :
Fuzziness in classical two-valued logic
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA
Abstract :
Classical two-valued logic has been thought to be inadequate as a logic of fuzzy predicates, because the interpretation of a predicate in classical two-valued logic is just a set of objects, and a set is a precise mathematical entity with nothing fuzzy about it. The aim of this paper is to show that fuzziness may, after all, be successfully modelled in classical two-valued logic via (i) the introduction of a notion of weak negation, where natural language occurrences of `not´ are not necessarily translated into logic as `~´, and (ii) giving fuzzy predicates recursively enumerable but not recursive interpretations. The model developed is computer-implementable and well-motivated
Keywords :
Boolean functions; fuzzy logic; natural languages; classical two-valued logic; computer-implementable model; fuzzy logic; fuzzy predicates; natural language occurrences; recursively enumerable nonrecursive interpretations; weak negation; Educational institutions; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; Logic testing; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Natural languages;
Conference_Titel :
Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, 1995, and Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. Proceedings of ISUMA - NAFIPS '95., Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
College Park, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7126-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISUMA.1995.527742