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AI Evolving with New Age Techniques
10.1 Fuzzy Logic
The word ‘fuzzy’ means the things that are not clear (or are vague). In real-life situations, we often encounter circumstances in which it is difficult to determine whether to go this way or that or given a statement, it is difficult to judge whether it is true or false. In such a situation, fuzzy logic provides many values between the true and false thereby offering the flexibility to find the best solution for the given situation at that particular point in time. As seen from Fig. 10.1, fuzzy logic contains multiple logical values that are the truth values of a variable.
In fuzzy logic, instead of saying just hot or cold, we can have multiple values like Certainly Yes, Possibly Yes, ...
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