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  1. Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!batcomputer!elias
  3. From: elias@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU (Doug Elias)
  4. Subject: Re: What does "AND" mean?
  5. In-Reply-To: gperkins@netcom.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:54:23 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <ELIAS.93Jan22103147@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU>
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  9. Organization: Software and Consulting Support Group, Cornell Theory Center,
  10.     C.U.
  11. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:31:47 GMT
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  16. In the context of "pretty and nice", where you'd like to be able to
  17. allow changes in any of the qualities to be reflected in the outcome
  18. and, moreover, you want to allow for different qualities to be
  19. differently weighted ("nice" is more important to me than "pretty",
  20. say), use the "generalized mean" rather than "and" ... that's actually
  21. more in keeping with what you're trying to do, anyway: the person is
  22. some-kind-of "sum" over all of their qualities, not a quasi-logical
  23. conjunction. 
  24.  
  25. doug
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