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- LETTERS, Page 8Oddball Thinking
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- I am reassured by your report on the mathematics that
- allows computers to use "fuzzy logic" (TECHNOLOGY, Sept. 25) and
- simulate the vagueness and uncertainty of ordinary life. Not
- every process can be dealt with in Aristotelian terms. Fuzzy
- logic, as you describe it, offers humankind liberation from the
- mechanistic obsessions and literalism of rigid modes of thought
- and their consequent frustrations and disappointments. For
- myself, I would blend into the systems of fuzzy logic a tad of
- Zen as well, if Zen can be quantified.
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- Ron Swearinger Los Angeles
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- Once again an advance by the Japanese is attributed to some
- innate factor of their culture. That the Japanese would utilize
- technology based on a theory developed in the U.S. is more
- attributable to the short-term outlook of America's business
- community, where the accountant's bottom line governs
- investment decisions. The Japanese have embraced an American
- process: creating products through invention and good
- engineering.
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- Frank DeBritz Manlius, N.Y.
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