[wrp]

Although fuzzy logic was developed by Lotfi Zadeh in the USA, it never gained the level of interest and respectability here that it did in Japan and Eastern Europe. I remember American engineers saying that fuzzy techniques were things they already understood and were doing under different names. They saw no benefit in adopting a new conceptual system.

Among the more philosophically inclined, there was controversy other whether fuzzy logic was really something new or just a repackaging of old ideas with a misleading vocabulary. There was a book on how this debate played out in journal articles, but I can't think of the title now.

[bigattichouse]

I believe Bart Kosko, in his book on Fuzzy logic, said to expect the division of use of FL techniques to break down on cultural lines - that western thought would resist using it when "more granular binary logic" and cpu speed would prevail.