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>In article <35st51$l8l@b.stat.purdue.edu> hrubin@b.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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>>I would say rather that fuzzy logic is an attempt to do probability 
>>without considering joint probabilities.  There have been many attempts
>>at linear logics, and they all hang up at about the same point; if
>>propositions p and q have truth-values 1/2, what is the truth value
>>of p and q?  The extremes are q=p and q=~p.


Couldn't it also be considered a kind of multivalued logic?
Maybe it's something that straddles the zone between standard
bivalent logic and probability.

I do seem to recall that Carnap had a probabilistic logic.
Does fuzzy logic have similarities to Carnap's probabilistic logic?

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
