A mathematical technique for dealing with imprecise data and problems that have many solutions rather than one. Although it is implemented in digital computers which ultimately make only yes-no ...

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Vol. 90, No. 3, Vagueness (Dec., 2008), pp. 407-423 (17 pages) Fuzzy logics are in most cases based on an ad-hoc decision about the ...

When Aristotle and his predecessors devised their theories of logic and mathematics, they came up with the so-called Law of the Excluded Middle, which states that every proposition must either be true ...

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