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Article: General semantics and fuzzy logic.
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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LOGIC HAS LONG BEEN USED to evaluate the "truth" of reasoning. This is often a weak method of evaluating, since logic can only tell us if the rules of the language have been violated, and it cannot evaluate the truth or falsity of any statement or group of statements in relation to what they describe. This is especially true of the prevailing Aristotelian logic systematized by Aristotle and his followers and handed down to us from ancient Greece.
Aristotelian logic is mainly confined to the analysis of short statements and not to extended locutions, and it is subject to the semantic errors of the Aristotelian language. But we need to know if a complete chain of ...