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From: sobi0268@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Kevin V. Sobilo)
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Thinking (the book)
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Robert Wald (rob@panix.com) wrote:
:   Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup, it was as close as I knew.

:   I've been reading the book 'Fuzzy Thinking' by Bart Kosko, and wanted
: to get some feedback on it. I'm on page 80 (trade paperback), and it 
: seems to be going nowhere. THe writing is almost insipid, with the
: same phrases which were clever the first time, cloying the
: tenth. And there seems to be no content here. He keeps saying
: things, but not too much about the details of Fuzzy Logic. I'm
: familiar with most of the concepts and 'paradoxes' which he mentioned, but
: there's nothing new here, at least so far.

:    What I'm wondering is if it's worth going further. So far, it's
: argument by repetition. And I've yet to see any mention of
: how the model (if I can call it that, since it's not defined yet)
: differs from probability in a practical sense. In fact, it seems
: semantic to me; the paradoxes lying in the way the questions are
: put together. 


Well, Im am near the end of the book myself... I liked the book in general...
I don't have a great background in Fuzzy Logic, but I have been
reading on the subject for the last year or so.. This is probably the
3rd or 4th book I have examined. 

This book is definately not centered on the application development
aspects of Fuzzy Logic. So, if that's what you want, then I would
say don't read further. 


:   Is it worth finishing? What is the point to it? Is there a difference between
: multi-valued or continuous logic and probability? Maybe it's just too
: mass-market.

I would say "yes" to the fact that the book is aimed at a big market. It is
not a technical book through most of it.  It is more of a gentle introduction,
which one who has no knowledge of the subject can appreciate as well
as someone who has a bit more knowledge. 



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