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This chapter applies granular computing to Aristotle’s categorical syllogism. Such kind of reasoning is called granular reasoning. For the purpose, two operations called zooming in and out are introduced to reconstruct granules of possible worlds.
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Akama, S., Kudo, Y., Murai, T. (2020). Granular Computing and Aristotle’s Categorical Syllogism. In: Topics in Rough Set Theory. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 168. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29566-0_10
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