Chapter 0

FOUNDATION

In his Keynote address at FUZZY-IEEE 2001 Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2-5, 2001, Lotfi A. Zadeh suggested that researchers should attempt to develop “Expressions” in order to structure a sound foundation for CWW, Computing With Words, based on CWP, Computing With Perceptions.

This book synthesizes my investigation over the last twenty years or so on the structure identification of “Expressions” in combination of concepts as a bases for CWW. The unique perspective of this work can be summarized as follows:Theories of set and logic are and should be understood as separate and independent disciplines. They interact in the derivation of “Expressions”, i.e., new (additional), formulas for the combination of linguistic concepts ...

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