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To a lay person reading about history of physics, it may sound as if the progress of physics comes from geniuses whose inspiration leads them to precise equations that – almost magically – explain all the data: this is what Newton did with mechanics, this is what Schroedinger did with quantum physics, this is what Einstein did with gravitation. However, a deeper study of history of physics shows that in all these cases, these geniuses did not start from scratch – they formalized ideas that first appeared in imprecise (“fuzzy”) form. In this paper, we explain – on the qualitative level – why ideas usually first appear in informal, imprecise form. This explanations enables us to understand other seemingly counterintuitive facts – e.g., that it is much more difficult for a person to know him/herself than to know others. We also provide some general recommendations based on this explanation.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), and HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes), and by the AT &T Fellowship in Information Technology.
It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478, and by a grant from the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDI).
The authors are thankful to the anonymous referees for valuable suggestions.
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Svítek, M., Kreinovich, V. (2023). Why Ideas First Appear in Informal Form? Why It Is Very Difficult to Know Yourself? Fuzzy-Based Explanation. In: Dick, S., Kreinovich, V., Lingras, P. (eds) Applications of Fuzzy Techniques. NAFIPS 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 500. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16038-7_27
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