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The nature of fuzzy logic is briefly discussed. It is argued that fuzzy logic is a scientific conceptualization of vagueness and a methodology of how to cope with it. The basic notion of vagueness is briefly explicated to show that fuzzy logic reconstructs vagueness as what has come to be called fuzziness, i.e., what is representable as, or by, a fuzzy set. While vagueness is an attribute of real-world entities, fuzziness is a construct provided by fuzzy logic. Otherwise put, ”fuzzy” and ”fuzziness” are theoretical terms of fuzzy logic.
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2013). The Construction of Fuzziness. In: Seising, R., Tabacchi, M. (eds) Fuzziness and Medicine: Philosophical Reflections and Application Systems in Health Care. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 302. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36527-0_2
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