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What Is Fuzzy Logic – And Why It Matters to Us

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 298))

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The aim of this short note is twofold: recounting how our research group became interested in fuzzy logic, and briefly discussing a definition of fuzzy logic suggested by Bĕhounek and Cintula (see [1]). Lest the anecdotal incipit should be dismissed (perhaps deservedly) with a blunt So what?, we remind that prospective contributors to this volume are required to mention how they arrived to the field of fuzzy logic and to present their views and expectations ‘on fuzziness’. Both aims, therefore, seem to sit comfortably within the scopes of this book, especially in view of the fact that Lofti Zadeh has always been concerned with the problem of delimiting the boundaries of the subject he pioneered (see e.g. his [16]).

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Giuntini, R., Paoli, F., Freytes, H., Ledda, A., Sergioli, G. (2013). What Is Fuzzy Logic – And Why It Matters to Us. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35641-4_32

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