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Fuzziness and Fuzzy Concepts and Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology

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Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2014)

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How do humans develop concepts? – This paper presents a historical view on answers to this question. Psychologist Piaget was influenced by Philosopher Kant when he founded his theory of cognitive child development named “Genetic Epistemology”. Biologist and historian of science Rheinberger emphasized that scientific concepts are “fluctuating objects” or “imprecise concepts” when he founded his “Historical Epistemology”. In this paper we combine these approaches with that of fuzzy concepts. We give some hints to establish a new approach to extend Piaget’s theory, to a so-called “Fuzzy Genetic Epistemology”.

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    Rudolf Seising

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Seising, R. (2014). Fuzziness and Fuzzy Concepts and Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology. In: Laurent, A., Strauss, O., Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R. (eds) Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 443. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08855-6_56

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