Fuzziness: From Epistemic Considerations to Terminological Clarification

Abstract

Using some semantical considerations and results from basic philosophy and some basic mathematical concepts we try to fix suitable explanations for some fundamental notions of fuzzy set theory on a semiformal level. This will – to the author's knowledge for the first time at all – lead us to a proposal for a definition of what is to be understood by the term 'fuzziness', simultaneously clarifying its epistemic rôle.