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7. Fuzzy Thinking such simple contradiction
Fuzzy thinking is a kind of cannot always propose a
approach that sees the world plausible account of what is
and its events as an happening. The real world is
integration of contradictions. not white and black.
According to Aristotelian The majority of the state of
logic, a subject, like “A” affairs belongs to gray areas
accepts a predicate like “B” in which objects are both
or its inverse, namely not white and black or in logical
“B”. There is no other option. terminology, in some particular
Therefore, there are two sense, subjects could simultaneously
propositions: “A is B” and “A accept both contradictory
is not B”. In the Aristotelian predicates.
viewpoint, we must merely The mind simplifies the
verify one of these properties, events, and
propositions and reject the predicates by analyzing and
other one. So, “A” is either dividing them into some
“B” or not “B”. It is not yes/no questions. However,
possible to confirm that “A” the external world by
is both “B” and not “B”. external, we mean something
At first glance, it seems that does not depend on the
that everything just falls human mind. integrates the
under the one side of opposite situation. We think
contradictory options but that fuzzy thinking manifests
concentration on predicates its strengths in turning points
reveals the fact that the real and gradation of properties.
world is so complicated that
