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biological concepts. It has spirit from a physical body
been suggested that the given that the Aristotelian
concept of life or of a living logic with which he operated
system does not have a clear was bivalent.
definition by means of which Within a bivalent logic, one
everything could be classified in which propositions are
as either living or non-living. either true or false and one
Some see this as reason to use proposition cannot be more
fuzzy logic for such concepts. true than any other true
It seems impossible to proposition, it is impossible to
obtain a clear-cut definition adequately formulate the idea
for the concepts life and of gradual change of any sort,
living which can satisfy all such as the substantial motion
scientists. Life, and especially through which a vegetable
the progressive transition soul emerges from the body
from non-living to living when the body gradually
matter, is a concept to which comes to life, and then
traditional Aristotelian logic gradually becomes an animal
cannot be applied. soul, until it gradually comes
Fuzzy logic provides a into possession of an eternal
natural way of dealing with human soul, and this ascends
these types of problems in through levels until it
which class membership lacks becomes the rational soul, if it
sharply defined criteria. gets that far. Gradual change
(Bruylants et al, 2010: 142) of this kind gives rise to the
It is remarkable that Mulla sorites paradox.
Sadra was able to conceive of Consider the sorites paradox
the gradual emergence of with regard to the transition
