"In this paper, it is argued that probability theory, when used correctly, is suffrcient for the task of reasoning under uncertainty."
The author, Peter Cheeseman, is a reputable figure and a solid practitioner. I'm sure he's just as annoyed that, on the second page, his own name is misspelled as "Cheesemart" ;-).
People may recognize him as a co-creator of the AutoClass software for Bayesian clustering, which was very popular in the late 1990s - the explanatory paper has 1700 citations.
please help clean up if you have time.
Fuzzy logic recognizes degrees of occurrence, represented by any number between 0 and 1. Its proponents contend that this allows richer abstraction of the ways that humans actually perceive and reason about the world. In their view, probability is just a special case of fuzzy logic, using artificially restricted truth values.
If you're interested, check out Kosko's "Fuzziness vs. probability." International Journal of General System 17.2-3 (1990): 211-240 http://sipi.usc.edu/~kosko/Fuzziness_Vs_Probability.pdf
available athttp://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cpreambl.pdf
It is probably (ha!) the most enlightening math book I have ever read.
That person already did the OCR cleaning (and the fonts are nicer).
Donald Trump weighs 107 kg. Donald Trump weighs less than the sun.
