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- From: cgra@btma74.nohost.nodomain (Chris Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy
- Subject: Re: What does "AND" mean?
- Message-ID: <1448@se.alcbel.be>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:44:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.225423.25301@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.225423.25301@netcom.com>, gperkins@netcom.com (Glen C. Perkins) writes:
- > Suppose I'm looking for a wife "scientifically" (yeah, right) and I
- > decide that my rule for evaluating candidates is "the prettier and the
- > nicer, the more interested I am."
-
- But this ain't a fuzzy set, it's a continuum. Now if you were to say
- "If she's nice and she's pretty then she's for me", then you have a fuzzy
- rule on three sets {nice}, {pretty}, and {4me}. Then I think that the
- interpretation that e.g. miss (.5,.7) is only .5 4me is not so counter-
- intuitive after all. Change the "and" of the rule to "or" and her 4me
- rating goes up to .7 - that makes sense to me, too.
-
- Multiplication works fine if you are allocated a wife by a lottery, and
- you have a .5 chance that she's nice and a .5 chance that she's pretty.
- Then the chance of getting a nice, pretty wife really is .25 (assuming
- niceness and prettiness are uncorrelated).
-
- BTW if AND is a*b, as in boolean algebra or probability theory, then OR
- will presumably be a+b-a*b, which solves your problem of squeezing it into
- the range (0,1). The chance of getting a wife who is nice OR pretty is
- 5+.5-.25 = .75, so cheer up.
-
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