Lotfi Zadeh has died
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Lotfi Zadeh has died
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Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#2Darnit. Fuzzy sets and logic just made sense to me in so many ways and I found his writings quite interesting. RIP.
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#3Darnit. Fuzzy sets and logic just made sense to me in so many ways and I found his writings quite interesting. RIP.
Any recommendations as far as his writings go?
Pretty substantial list here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/papers/index.htm
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#4RIP Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh.Form an interview "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too. I can be very stubborn. That's probably been beneficial for the development of Fuzzy Logic."
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#5RIP Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh.Form an interview "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too. I can be very stubborn. That's probably been beneficial for the development of Fuzzy Logic."
Same interview:
Interviewer:Would you say that Fuzzy Logic turns Aristotelian or Classical Logic on its head?
Lotfi:(Laughs). Back in Aristotle's day, people tried to be as precise as possible. That's the Aristotelian tradition, the Cartesian tradition. Looking at things as being entirely black or white stems from such a tradition. But take the example of good and bad. What we're beginning to understand now is that sometimes things that we perceive as bad really turn out to be good, or perhaps, not as bad as we originally thought. Things can serve a purpose. People back in Aristotle's time and even later thought that by perceiving things in black and white (in absolute terms) that they gained alot. And they did. But they lost a great deal in the process. Fuzzy Logic represents a swing in the opposite direction but I would like to stress that there is much more to Fuzzy Logic than multi-valuedness of truth.
Classical logic has erred in devoting so little attention to approximate reasoning and focusing to such a high degree on exact reasoning. So when you take a course in logic, you learn all kinds of things which are of very little use in everyday life. We encounter approximate reasoning all the time. For example, "Where can I park my car?" Where should I have lunch? Should I place this call "person-to person" or "station to station"? Should I buy this house? How do I get from this side of town to the other when I'm in a hurry? Classical logic, operation research, decision analysis-many other disciplines have nothing to say about this topic.
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Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#6Darnit. Fuzzy sets and logic just made sense to me in so many ways and I found his writings quite interesting. RIP.
Would you mind concisely explaining one example and application of it? I've read (for example) about possibility theory, but I hardly understand what it helps us do that probability theory didn't.
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#7Darnit. Fuzzy sets and logic just made sense to me in so many ways and I found his writings quite interesting. RIP.
Would you mind concisely explaining one example and application of it? I've read (for example) about possibility theory, but I hardly understand what it helps us do that probability theory didn't.
Here you are
Fuzzy logic reminds me Albert Einstein quote about mathematics. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#8RIP. Set theory has always been an interesting topic but Prof. Zadeh stirred up the pot by proposing and strongly advocating fuzzy sets, which have opened up both new theoretical and practical paths for others to explore.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you mind concisely explaining one example and application of it? I've read (for example) about possibility theory, but I hardly understand what it helps us do that probability theory didn't.
Here you are https://youtu.be/J_Q5X0nTmrA Fuzzy logic reminds me Albert Einstein quote about mathematics. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Whoever decided on the trembling text is a monster.
Re: Lotfi Zadeh has died
#10RIP Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh.Form an interview "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too. I can be very stubborn. That's probably been beneficial for the development of Fuzzy Logic."
Same interview: Interviewer:Would you say that Fuzzy Logic turns Aristotelian or Classical Logic on its head? Lotfi:(Laughs). Back in Aristotle's day, people tried to be as precise as possible. That's the Aristotelian tradition, the Cartesian tradition. Looking at things as being entirely black or white stems from such a tradition. But take the example of good and bad. What we're beginning to understand now is that s…
thankfully, he gave a fantastic talk recognizing Alfred Korzybski in 1994.