fuzzy logic
Degrees of truth
Fuzzy logic is a form of reasoning that handles degrees of truth rather than absolute true-or-false values.
Where classical logic deals in binary—something either is or isn't—fuzzy logic allows partial membership: water can be "somewhat hot" rather than strictly hot or cold.
The approach proves useful in control systems, artificial intelligence, and any domain where human categories blur at the edges: The thermostat uses fuzzy logic to maintain comfortable temperatures.
Absence of precision
- imprecisionLack of exactness
- approximationNear but inexact value
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
inexactness · partial truth · gradation · tolerance · continuum · spectrum · degrees · shades of gray
Absence of precision
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- categorizationArranging into groups
- gradualismPhilosophy of incremental change
- indeterminacyLack of fixed outcome
Mathematics of abstract collections
- hedgesPlanted boundary lines
- truth valueProposition's logical standing
AI using encoded rules
- neural networksLayered computational learning systems
- machine learningAlgorithms that improve from data
- knowledge baseStructured information repository
- heuristicPractical solving shortcut
vagueness
Absence of precision
- imprecisionLack of exactness
- approximationNear but inexact value
- ambiguityOpenness to multiple interpretations
indeterminacy · inexactness · partial truth · gradation · tolerance · continuum · spectrum · degrees · shades of gray · probabilistic
vagueness
Absence of precision
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- categorizationArranging into groups
- gradualismPhilosophy of incremental change
set theory
Mathematics of abstract collections
- hedgesPlanted boundary lines
- truth valueProposition's logical standing
expert systems
AI using encoded rules
- neural networksLayered computational learning systems
- machine learningAlgorithms that improve from data
- knowledge baseStructured information repository
hedges
Planted boundary lines
approximately · roughly · almost · fairly · quite · rather · slightly · more or less · kind of · sort of
- AIAI, machine learning, deep learning, algorithm, chatbot
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference
- AI systemsexpert systems, knowledge base, inference, knowledge bases, ontology
- fuzzy logictruth value, hedge, hedges, concentration, dilation
- nonclassical logic
- optimization algorithmsswarm intelligence, hill climbing, convergence, heuristic, nature-inspired
fuzzy logicBoolean logic
Two-valued algebraic system
binary logic · black-and-white thinking · digital logic · formal logic · all-or-nothing
fuzzy, logic, logical, illogical, logically, illogically, logician, illogicality, fuzziness