ON THE MEASURE OF FUZZINESS AND NEGATION Part I: Membership in the Unit Interval
International Journal of General SystemsPublished 1 January 1979
Ronald R. Yager
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It is suggested that fuzziness can be related to the lack of distinction between a set and its negation and the concept of compatibility is used to develop linguistic measures of fuzziness.
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We investigate the meaning of the concept of fuzziness. It is suggested that fuzziness can be related to the lack of distinction between a set and its negation. Using fuzzy subsets with grades of membership in the unit interval, measures of fuzziness are suggested. First, a class of measures based on metric distances is used to derive numeric measures of fuzziness of a fuzzy set. Finally, the concept of compatibility is used to develop linguistic measures of fuzziness.
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