[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

OT? - Fuzzy logic and paradoxes

  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Subject: OT? - Fuzzy logic and paradoxes
  • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:24:38 -0700 (PDT)

logic and paradoxes
[Sorry if this is not of general interest, but it
relates to ideas that have come up in the Ontology and
Google threads]

http://www.economist.co.uk/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2099851

Apparently two researchers in Greece [one at the 
Aristotle University, ironically enough!] have
demonstrated that fuzzy logic  can be used to solve
many cases involving paradoxes, such as the famous
Liar's paradox--"this sentence is false"--that are
meaningless in conventional logic.

As a "direction for future research" the article
mentions the possibility of devising 'a form of logic
that is in between fuzzy logic and normal,
true-or-false binary logic. Rather than the infinite
choices of fuzzy logic, or the two in binary logic,
this would have options for false, true, sort of true,
sort of false, and exactly half-way. Epimenides the
Cretan would surely have approved, or disapproved?or,
most likely, something in between. '

PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.