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From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: What is "fuzzy logic"?
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In <13842@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> ah314368@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Vincent Huffaker) writes:
[...]
>Fuzzy-logic is essentially conditional logic but with a well-defined
>method (I don't know what it is) for applying operators (like 'and' or 'or')
>to statements with multiple probabilistic dependencies.
[...]

When Dr. Zadeh spoke here last semester, he was asked if Fuzzy Logic
provided (required) a particular combination function. He said no; you
should use whatever combination function worked. Likewise it does
not provide (require) any particular possibility distribution; you should
use whatever works.



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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
