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This paper reviews, rather non-technically, Pawlak’s approach to vagueness through rough sets and looks for a foundation of rough sets in an early work of Obtułowicz. An extension of Obtułowicz’s proposal is suggested that in turn, hints at a unified approach to rough sets and fuzzy sets.
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Chakraborty, M.K. (2007). Pawlak’s Landscaping with Rough Sets. In: Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Düntsch, I., Grzymała-Busse, J., Orłowska, E., Polkowski, L. (eds) Transactions on Rough Sets VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71200-8_4
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