On Fuzzy Quantifiers

  • Helmut Thiele
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Part of the Theory and Decision Library book series (TDLD, volume 16)

Abstract

First, A.Mostowski’s concept of generalized quantifiers introduced in 1957 has been translated into fuzzy logic and has been compared with the concept of fuzzy quantifiers that was introduced by L.A.Zadeh in 1983 and has been investigated by him, by R.R.Yager and others in the following years. Secondly, using the notions of T-norm and S-norm a new class of fuzzy universal and existential quantifiers, respectively, has been created.

Thirdly, there are approaches for defining fuzzy quantifiers like “almost all,” “most,” and “many” in arbitrary universes, where the quantifier “almost-all” is used as basic quantifier.

Keywords

Fuzzy Logic Cardinal Number Existential Quantifier Syllogistic Reasoning Basic Quantifier 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Helmut Thiele
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  1. 1.Department of Computer Science 1University of DortmundDortmundGermany

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