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Prospects for Truth Valuation in Fuzzy Extended Logic

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Lotfi Zadeh’s fuzzy extended logic is applied to approximate linguistic reasoning. The prevailing fuzzy reasoning methods still seem to have some bivalent commitments in truth valuation and thus an alternative many-valued resolution is presented at meta-level.

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I express my thanks to Professor Lotfi Zadeh for his valuable ideas and comments to my examination

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  1. Department of Economics and Management, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Vesa A. Niskanen

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  1. Department of Automation, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary

    László T. Kóczy

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    Claudiu R. Pozna

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    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Niskanen, V.A. (2014). Prospects for Truth Valuation in Fuzzy Extended Logic. In: Kóczy, L., Pozna, C., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Issues and Challenges of Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03206-1_1

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