JB> I'll give you -his-, Bart Kosko's, words.
JB> At first I worked with symbols on abstract math theorums."
So far this is gab, where's the math?
JB> In Fuzzy logic set theroy, a "thing" may belong to a set
JB> (A) -AND- (not A) at the same time giving truth values
JB> between and inclusive of zero and one.
Gab, gab, gab. What's the definitions? What I understand is that in fuzzy
set theory an element x belongs to a set A with degree d, 0 <= d <= 1, x
member A (d). For example, A = {rocks in river}, r a rock. r member A (1) if
r is completely submerged. r member A (1/2) if r is half submerged, r member
A (1/3) if r is 1/3 submerged, r member A (0) if r is completely out of the
river.
So a half submerged rock is in A with degree 1/2 and in not A with degree
1/2, while a fully submerged rock is in A with degree 1 and in not A with
degree 0. In general x member notA (d) when x member A (1-d), the definition
of not A.
Now probability is different. An infinite multi valued propositional
calculus that is successful is probability theory. If two independent
events, P and Q have probability p and q, then probability P and Q is pq, not
P is 1 - p, and P or Q is, of course, from PorQ equivalent not(notP and notQ)
is 1 - (1-p)(1-q) = p + q - pq. This method however is not applicable for a
finite valued propositional calculus.
Of interest is P implies Q, not(P and notQ) witch has probability 1 - p(1-q)
= 1 - p + pq. So if p = 1 then probability of P implies Q is q and if p = 0
it's 1. Which is to be expected. Now if p = 1/2, it's 1/2 + q/2. Brain
teaser, is it not?
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