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This short essay characterizes Zadeh’s contribution as the Fuzzy Theoretic Turn, recalling the past two turns in the human history: Kopernikanishe Wende (turn) by Kopernik in astronomy and the Linguistic Turn by Wittgenstein in philosophy.
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Later, the author recounted the number of adjectives and found about 430 in English, about 180 in French, about 200 in Spanish and also about 150 in Basque.
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Sugeno, M. (2021). The Fuzzy Theoretic Turn. In: Lesot, MJ., Marsala, C. (eds) Fuzzy Approaches for Soft Computing and Approximate Reasoning: Theories and Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 394. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54341-9_1
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