On the Logos: A Naïve View on Ordinary Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic

• Introduction.- Meaning as a Quantity.- Antonyms, Negation, and the Fuzzy Case.- ‘And’, and ‘Or’ in Language. The case with Fuzzy Sets.- A First Look at Conditional Statements.- Linguistic Qualification, and Synonymy.- Thinking, Analogy, and Reasoning.- A (Naïve) Symbolic Model of Ordinary Reasoning.- A Glance at Analogy.- A Glance at Creative Reasoning.- Formal Reasoning with Precise Words.- Formal Reasoning with Imprecise Words.- A Few Questions on the Reasoning of Quantum Physics.- Questions on Uncertain, Possible, and Probable.- Questions on Domesticating and Controlling Analogy.- Questions on the Classical Schemes of Inference.- Questions on the Fuzzy Schemes of Inference.- Questions on Monotony.- Questions on ‘Not Covered by P’.- Questions on ‘Sorites’ in Ordinary Reasoning.- A Few Questions on Naming Concepts.- Instead of a Conclusion.- To End Up.

“It is more of a philosophical text that touches several issues that daily confront people involved in artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, and fuzzy modeling. Due to its thought-provoking nature, sometimes re-reading is necessary in order to fully understand the author’s thoughts. Reading this book may raise feelings of a disparate nature: excitement, perplexity, enlightenment, and incompleteness. In all cases, the ingenuous will surely find stimuli for further thinking and meditation.” (Corrado Mencar, Computing Reviews, April, 2018)​