From: Daniel Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Mon May 25 1998 - 13:50:55 MDT
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Leonardo Gonzalez wrote:
> Multivalent ("Fuzzy") logic does not conflict with absolute truth. It
> merely breaks it down into cheweable bites instead of forcing you to
> swallow a whole apple or none at all.
Too true. So long as we're aware that the truth itself is not fuzzy, but
we are simply using fuzzy logic as a tool to better explain or
conceptualize the truth.
> Believe it or not, there ARE times when one is neither completely right,
> nor completely wrong.
Perhaps, but not because reality itself is partially objective, but
because the statement one is making contains some fraction of true
information and some fraction of false information.
Like I said, it's fuzzy TRUTH that I'm attacking here, not fuzzy logic.
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