DocumentCode
2903617
Title
Is there a concept of fuzziness in the epistemological systems of Heinrich Hertz and Ludwig Wittgenstein?
Author
Seising, Rudolf
Author_Institution
Core Unit of Med. Stat. & Inf., Med. Univ. of Vienna, Vienna
fYear
2008
fDate
1-6 June 2008
Firstpage
498
Lastpage
505
Abstract
"A picture is a model of reality", "A picture is a fact", and "We picture facts to ourselves" asserted Ludwig Wittgenstein in his Tractatus logico-philosophicus, thereby confirming the influence on his thinking - which he himself acknowledged - of Heinrich Hertz\´s Prinzipien der Mechanik (principles of mechanics). In this contribution the "picture" concept, which has a long tradition in philosophy, serves as the starting point of an interpretation of the relationship between real systems and theoretical structures of modern science. In addition, the approach dubbed as the "structuralist" approach of scientific theories in the 20th century will be extended and enhanced by the concept of "fuzzy sets" and "fuzzy relations". This fuzzy structuralist view on scientific theories enables us to combine philosophy of science with the methodologies of Computing with words (CW) and the computational theory of perceptions (CTP). Finally we give future prospects of this work.
Keywords
fuzzy set theory; computational theory of perceptions; epistemological systems; fuzziness concept; fuzzy relations; fuzzy sets; principles of mechanics; Fuzzy systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Systems, 2008. FUZZ-IEEE 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Hong Kong
ISSN
1098-7584
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1818-3
Electronic_ISBN
1098-7584
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FUZZY.2008.4630414
Filename
4630414
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