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by saithound
1112 days ago
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Fuzzy logic deals with degrees/scores, probability theory deals with how likely something is. When you say that "The hotel room is 75% clean", that's a degree. It means a room that's not as clean as a "90% clean" hotel room, but definitely cleaner than a "50% clean" hotel room on some kind of cleanliness scale that you have. You need a scale because the boundary between clean and unclean is not sharp, but fuzzy. Fuzzy logic gives you tools to construct well-behaved scales for logical combinations of variables that already have scales associated with them. E.g. if you have a scale for a motorcycle being loud and a scale for a motorcycle being expensive (both fuzzy concepts), the tools of fuzzy logic can e.g. give you a scale for loud OR expensive. In contrast, when you say that "The hotel room is clean with probability 75%", you're reasoning about how likely it is that the room is clean under uncertainty. Maybe the cleaners only work 3 out of 4 days, and you're unsure what day it is. But these are not degrees of cleanliness: if you say that a room has a 75% chance of being clean you're not claiming that it's cleaner than some other room that has a 50% chance of being clean. The concepts involved in probability need not be fuzzy, or even measured on a scale. E.g. when one says "there's a 75% chance that the car repair will cost more than $50", there is no fuzziness involved in whether the repair costs more than $50 or not: in the end, you'll get a bill, and it will state a number that is unambiguously either above $50 or not above $50, a pure binary variable, no scales involved. |
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