On What I Still Hope from Fuzzy Logic

Abstract

AbstractThis paper just tries to look towards a particular aspect of fuzzy logic’s future. Namely, that concerning to the form in which its theoretic evolution should be followed up to approach, in a scientific manner, one of the greats desiderata in the way to Zadeh’s Computing with Words: the renewal of the old thought of making interact Fuzzy Logic and Natural Language Common Sense Reasoning. For such a way, and from the perspective of its author, it is argued that fuzzy logic deserves to move towards a new experimental science of linguistic imprecision and non-random uncertainty. A goal for which a critical review of some still open questions should be done, but not only taking as models those of logic and mathematics. The author thinks that a better model is that of physics, joining observation, controlled experimentation and mathematical models in the ground of language and ordinary reasoning, with the extensive use of computational technology and its applications to practical problems.KeywordsMembership FunctionFuzzy LogicBoolean AlgebraPrimary MeaningOrthomodular LatticeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.