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   Re: [xml-dev] OT? - Fuzzy logic and paradoxes

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Mike Champion wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

That is not new, BTW.  Bart Kosko discussed a fuzzy resolution to the 
Liar's Paradox on page 4 of his 1992 book "Neural Networks and Fuzzy 
Systems".

Cheers,

Tom P






 

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