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In the Future Everyone Will Be a Fuzzy Set: Enric Trillas, FST as an Experimental Science and the Relationship with Theory of Concepts

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Accuracy and Fuzziness. A Life in Science and Politics

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Enrique Trillas Ruiz has had a long association with Italy, and for ten years now has been in the Scientific committee of WILF, the International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic born and breed in our country; it was not until WILF 2009, which our research group organised in Terrasini (Palermo) and in which organising committee I sat, that I become aware of the “complementary soul” of Enric’s work. Up to that point I had stumbled upon his papers on fuzzy operators and logic, mostly the joint works of him and Claudi Alsina, such as [1, 2, 21], but my research interest at the time seemed to me away and far apart from the ensemble of symbols and logical implication: I was trying to use the elements of Fuzzy Set Theory to assess and compare typical cognitive tasks in humans - evaluation of image complexity was and still is one of my research interests, and the plethora of symbols seemed at the time to clash with the idea of representing what was normally expressed with words, intuitions and feelings.

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Tabacchi, M.E. (2015). In the Future Everyone Will Be a Fuzzy Set: Enric Trillas, FST as an Experimental Science and the Relationship with Theory of Concepts. In: Seising, R. (eds) Accuracy and Fuzziness. A Life in Science and Politics. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18606-1_14

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