• DocumentCode
    293521
  • Title

    Fuzziness construed in language: a linguistic perspective

  • Author

    Matthiessen, Christian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of English & Linguistics, Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    20-24 Mar 1995
  • Firstpage
    1871
  • Abstract
    I suggested that all experience can be construed as meaning organized into networks of classes. This includes our experience of the abstract relation of classification-the relation of being a member of a class. Class-membership is itself construed as a class in the network of classes; more specifically, it is construed by the intersection of `intensive´ and `ascriptive´ in the system network. In conclusion, I identify one of the ways my discussion has been restricted: I have focused an language as a resource for construing experience since the point of departure was Zadeh´s remarks about human thought. `Construing experience´ is one of the three generalized functions of language the ideational function. The other two are the interpersonal and textual functions, and both of these are also inherently fuzzy
  • Keywords
    computational linguistics; fuzzy set theory; natural languages; abstract relation; class-membership; fuzziness construing; ideational function; interpersonal function; linguistics; textual function; Birds; Cognition; Electrostatic precipitators; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy reasoning; Fuzzy sets; Humans; Machine intelligence; Multivalued logic; Natural languages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems, 1995. International Joint Conference of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and The Second International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium., Proceedings of 1995 IEEE Int
  • Conference_Location
    Yokohama
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2461-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZY.1995.409935
  • Filename
    409935