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Granularity and Extensional Sets

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Indistinguishability Operators

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 260))

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The presence of an indistinguishability operator on a universe determines its granules.

According to Zadeh, granularity is one of the basic concepts that underlie human cognition [146] and the elements within a granule ‘have to be dealt with as a whole rather than individually’ [145].

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Recasens, J. (2010). Granularity and Extensional Sets. In: Indistinguishability Operators. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 260. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16222-0_3

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