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From: Lion@lion.demon.co.uk (Nick Abel)
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Subject: Politics: a form of fuzzy thinking
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I am been reading Bart Kosko's book Fuzzy Thinking in which he suggests 
that before Lofti Zadeh's work fuzzy thinking was unknown in the western
tradition.

Surely western democratic politics are a form of fuzzy thinking?

John Major's conservatism or Tony Blair's socialism are not 'crisp' concepts
for example. Ronald Reagan was a fuzzy thinker par excellence, admittedly 
probably through accident rather than design. 


