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Fuzziness as an Experimental Science: An Homage to Claudio Moraga

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In this contribution we collect a few considerations and remarks on such apparently unrelated topics as: an early paper by Norbert Wiener on the Nature of Mathematics; mathematical logic’s heritage on the formalization of reasoning; cognitive aspects on the modalities of drawing conclusions. We hope that reading the present paper will show that they are, neverthless, related in some way at least for what regards the problem of reasoning in the presence of uncertainty, showing a network of concepts that can help considering again the innovating aspects of fuzziness—in our opinion a more than fit homage to Claudio Moraga’s interdisciplinary approach to fuzziness.

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    Marco Elio Tabacchi & Settimo Termini

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Tabacchi, M.E., Termini, S. (2017). Fuzziness as an Experimental Science: An Homage to Claudio Moraga. In: Seising, R., Allende-Cid, H. (eds) Claudio Moraga: A Passion for Multi-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48317-7_4

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