Views on Fuzzy Sets and Systems from Different Perspectives: Philosophy and Logic, Criticisms and Applications (Hardcover)

Fuzzy Sets and Systems and Philosophy of Science.- Fuzzy Systems and Scientific Method - Meta-level Reflections and Prospects.- Fuzzy Logic and Science.- Fuzzy Logic, Concepts and Semantic Transformers.- Phenomenology as a Criterion for Formalism Choice.- Computational Theory of Meaning Articulation: A Human Estimation Approach to Fuzzy Arithmetic.- Power Sets, Implications and Set Inclusions Revisited - Retrospect and Prospect: A Review of Bandler and Kohout's Paper and a Survey of 30 Years of Subsequent Developments.- Probability and Fuzziness - Echoes from 30 Years Back.- On a Model for the Meaning of Predicates - A Naive Approach to the Genesis of Fuzzy Sets.- Fuzzy Logic as a Theory of Vagueness: 15 Conceptual Questions.- Dialogue Games as Foundation of Fuzzy Logics.- Connecting a Tenable Mathematical Theory to Models of Fuzzy Phenomena.- Many-Valuation, Modality, and Fuzziness.- Fuzzy Thinking in Sociology.- Fuzzy Set Theory and the Philosophical Foundations of Medicine.- Fuzzy Preferences as a Convenient Tool in Group Decision Making and a Remedy for Voting Paradoxes.- What We Are Learning from Neurosciences about Decision-Making: A Quest for Fuzzy Set Technology.- Postmodernism and Control Engineering.- Fuzzy Mechanisms for Qualitative Causal Relations.- On the Relation between Fuzzy and Quantum Logic.- Fuzzy Cluster Analysis from the Viewpoint of Robust Statistics.- On the Usefulness of Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining.- The Uncertainty Associated with a Type-2 Fuzzy Set.- Fuzziness - Representation of Dynamic Changes by Ordered Fuzzy Numbers.- Meta Sets - Another Approach to Fuzziness.- Regression Model Based on Fuzzy Random Variables.- Optimal Workers' Placement in an Industrial Environment.