Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA From: CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Zadeh Syllogism Message-ID: <12582@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 04:38:21 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12582 Posted: Thu Oct 13 04:38:21 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Oct-83 08:47:01 EDT Lines: 34 From: Werner Uhrig Expensive apartments are not highly sought. Items not in demand are cheap. -> expensive apartments are cheap. or The higher the price, the lower the demand. The lower the demand, the lower the price. -> the higher the price , the lower the price. ergo ?? garbage in , garbage out! Why am I thinking of Reagonomics right now ???? Werner (UUCP: { ut-sally , ut-ngp } !utastro!werner ARPA: werner@utexas-20 PS: at this time of the day, one gets the urge to voice "weird" stuff ... ------- [The first form is as persuasive as the original syllogism. The second seems to be no more than a statement of negative feedback. Whether the system is stable depends on the nature of the implied driving forces. It seems we are now dealing with a temporal logic. An example of an unstable system is: The fewer items sold, the higher the unit price must be. The higher the price, the fewer the items sold. -------------------------------------------------------- Bankruptcy. -- KIL]