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From: popat@acton.media.mit.edu (Kris Popat)
Subject: Re: Fuzzy vs. Probability: Just give it to me in plain English
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David A. Fuess (fuess@llnl.gov) wrote:

> For instance, a sailboat may
> have some membership in "ship" (e.g. one could say it is a really
> small ship) while there is no probability that a sailboat could be a
> ship (i.e. in N random samples of sailboats M turned out to be ships
> and N-M were not).

True, but we can speak of the probability that a person, selected at
random from some population, would say that a sailboat is a ship.

Kris Popat
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