| In a message dated 10/6/2002 10:44:55 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@lycos.co.uk writes: << I think I'm talking about 1[truth value], 2 [quantity of event] and 4 [truth function], specifically I'm suggesting >> I think that something like this idea was behind the earliest fuzzy logics. They began by taking set membership as not a predicate but a function, returning for a given set and a given item a value in [0,1]. Then, derivatively, the moved from x e {y: Fy} to Fx and made the value of the epsilon function the truth value of the sentence. I take this to be essentially taking the quantity to be directly determinative of truth value (in a particularly simple way). [The fuzzy situation got more complex when the numbers themselves came to be fuzzy.] So, clearly we can do something like this -- though the epsilon function may be closer to xorxes' how close to being a full instance (?) than the scoring version. |