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Doubtlessly the motivations for the development of fuzzy logic are deemed closely associated with technologically biased concerns. In his 1962 paper -where the term fuzzy is supposed to appear for the first time in its current usage- Zadeh was primarily attentive to the emergence and evolution of system theory as well as its impact on the field of electric engineering [9], [10]. Moreover when Zadeh uses the term fuzzy in this paper, he is not cared about inanimate systems, but he is mostly troubled above animate or biological systems, which are generally orders of magnitude more complex than man-made systems. It brought himself to claim that it appears necessary to count on a radically different class of mathematics, one that accounts for fuzzy or cloudy quantities which are not describable in terms of probability distributions. Moreover even in the case of man-made systems it turns out apparent the need of such innovation.
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Urtubey, L.A. (2013). On Fuzzy Sets Philosophical Foundations. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 299. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35644-5_41
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