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Varieties of Vagueness, Fuzziness and a few foundational (and ontological) questions

Settimo TerminiMarco Elio Tabacchi

subject

Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)Settore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryFuzzy setVaguenessArtificial intelligencebusinessVagueness fuzziness language meaningEpistemologyMathematics

description

In this paper we discuss the multifaceted nature of vagueness, the limits of (standard) set theory in dealing with the foundational aspects that a really innovating theory of vagueness should manifest, and the difficul- ties in outlining the possible features that such a type of new formalism should exhibit in order to be able to deal with such innovative aspects. We shall highlight some aspects of the role that Fuzzy Set Theory (FST) can play in this process.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-01-01Proceedings of the 7th conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT-2011)
https://doi.org/10.2991/eusflat.2011.57