• 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