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On Fuzziness, Its Homeland and Its Neighbour

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Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing ((STUDFUZZ,volume 299))

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It has been frequently remembered (also in the invitation letter to contribute to the present volume) that in his 1962 paper [27] which is a sort of proto-manifesto of fuzzy sets [28], Zadeh among the possible names that could denote the new notion he was trying to introduce, basides fuzzy, mentioned the term cloudy. If he had chosen this last one as the name of the theory, today we had contributed to a volume On Cloudiness.

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Termini, S. (2013). On Fuzziness, Its Homeland and Its Neighbour. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 299. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35644-5_36

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