Approximate, quantitative reasoning that is concerned with the linguistic ambiguity which exists in natural or synthetic language. At its core are variables such as good, bad, and young as well as modifiers such as more, less, and very. These ordinary terms represent fuzzy sets in a particular problem. Fuzzy logic plays a key role in many medical expert systems.

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D017143 MeSH Browser

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M0026040

Previous indexing

Logic (1977-1992); Models, Theoretical (1974-1992)

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