Schopenhauer's prolegomenon to fuzziness (Q702292)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2128623
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2128623 |
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Schopenhauer's prolegomenon to fuzziness (English)
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17 January 2005
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The author claims that the German philosopher Schopenhauer has been a forerunner of fuzzy sets methodology, mainly based upon the observation that Schopenhauer used to refer to incompleteness of abstraction, to concept-spheres, and to the approximative character of human knowledge. But the whole argument somehow looks like: WE can explain some of Schopenhauer's ideas well using the notion of fuzzy set, HENCE HE is a forerunner of fuzzy sets.
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fuzzy sets
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vague notions in philosophy
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