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From: hanks@june.cs.washington.edu (Steve Hanks)
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Subject: Re: What is "fuzzy logic"?
Keywords: fuzzy logic, expert systems
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Date: 4 Apr 91 23:27:13 GMT
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Re. the discussion of fuzzy logic, combination functions, and 
the like:  there's a paper by Bart Kosko, titled "Fuzziness vs.
Probability", in Int. J. General Systems, Vol 17, 1990, pp. 211-240.

First of all, it's a very lucid and interesting paper, 
although I can't evaluate the technical content since this
isn't my area.

Anyway, he makes the claim that if you define the entropy of 
a fuzzy set in a certain way, then min and max are unique 
among the T-norms (and dual C-norms) in that they maximize
the entropy of the defining fuzzy system.

Seemed pretty compelling to me, and a fun read regardless of 
whether you buy the technical point of view or not.

Steve.