| Description |
xvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Shades of gray --- 2. The fuzzy principle --- 3. The whole in the part --- 4. The fuzzy past --- 5. Aristotle vs. Buddha --- 6. What is truth? --- 7. The ways of paradox --- 8. The fuzzy present --- 9. Fuzzy sets --- 10. Fuzzy systems --- 11. Adaptive fuzzy systems --- 12. The fuzzy future --- 13. Life and death --- 14. Ethics and the social contract --- 15. Man and god |
| Summary |
For more than 2000 years, Western science has been based on absolutes. Things are black or white, alive or dead, all or nothing. As human beings we know the world is not really like this, that degrees exist between the extremes. But until now science has been unable to accommodate these uncertainties. Fuzzy logic is a scientific revolution that has been waiting to happen for decades -- and its central tenets will dramatically change the relationship human beings have with the world. The question is to what degree. -- Back cover |
| Analysis |
Logic |
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Mathematics |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 299-308 |
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Originally published as author's thesis (Ph.D.), 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
Fuzzy logic.
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Fuzzy systems.
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Logic.
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Philosophy and science.
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| LC no. |
bnb00255352 |
| ISBN |
000255352X |
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0006547133 |
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