Skip to main content

Get full access to An Ontological and Epistemological Perspective of Fuzzy Set Theory and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Start your free trial

Table of Contents

Chapter 0: FOUNDATION

0.1 A Personal Perspective

0.2 A Perspective on The Philosophical Grounding of Fuzzy Theories

Appendix 1 Scientific and Philosophical Contribution of L.A. ZADEH

Appendix 2 Fuzzy Systems Applications in Operations Research, Management Science and Decision Support Systems

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Description and Verity

1.2 Nature of Truth

1.3 Definiteness vs. Indefiniteness

1.4 Syntax of a Formal Language, a PNL

1.5 Basic Notations – Type 1 Theory

1.6 Basic Notations – Type 2 Theory

1.7 Epistemological Concerns

Chapter 2: COMPUTING WITH WORDS

2.1 Words to Numbers

2.2 Descriptive and Veristic Assignments

2.3 Structure of Sentences

Get An Ontological and Epistemological Perspective of Fuzzy Set Theory now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Cover of Software Architecture Patterns

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now