DocumentCode
303988
Title
Classical-logic analogue of a fuzzy “paradox”
Author
Nguyen, Hung T. ; Kreinovich, Vladik
Author_Institution
Dept. of Math. Sci., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1996
fDate
8-11 Sep 1996
Firstpage
428
Abstract
One of the main reasons why classical logic is not always the most adequate tool for describing human knowledge is that in many real-life situations, we have some arguments in favor of a certain statement A and some arguments in favor of its negation -A. As a result, we want to consider both A and -A to be (to some extent) true. Classical logic does not allow us to do that, while in fuzzy logic, if the degree of belief in A is different from 0 and 1, then we have a positive degree of belief in a statement A&-A. In classical logic, A&-A is always false, so, when we get both A and -A in classical logic (a paradox), this means that something was wrong. In view of that, the fact that A&-A is possible in fuzzy logic, is viewed by some logicians as a “paradox” of fuzzy logic. In this paper, we show that in classical logic, although we cannot directly have A&-A, we can, in some sense, have confidence in both A and -A. In other words, we show that what classical logicians consider a fuzzy paradox has a direct analogue in classical logic
Keywords
fuzzy logic; belief; fuzzy logic; fuzzy paradox; Arithmetic; Computer science; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy set theory; Geometry; Solids; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fuzzy Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3645-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FUZZY.1996.551779
Filename
551779
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