Unfortunately, I don’t have any wonderful posts all ready for
\nour launch. At the moment, I’m the only administrator at Scientopia,
\nand I’ve been so busy working on just getting the site up and running
\nthat I haven’t had any time to actually finish any posts.<\/p>\n
But there’s stuff in progress! I’m working on two different series
\nof posts.<\/p>\n
First, in my request for topics back at SB, a ton of you were interested
\nin topology. I’ve written about topology before, but it was four years ago
\nwhen GM\/BM first moved to ScienceBlogs. So most of you guys probably
\nnever got to read it. I’ll be taking those posts, updating them, and
\nreposting them.<\/p>\n
The other series is on fuzzy logic. I really love logic – in particular, And, of course, if you’re doing fuzzy logic, you really need fuzzy set theory We’ll find out soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfortunately, I don’t have any wonderful posts all ready for our launch. At the moment, I’m the only administrator at Scientopia, and I’ve been so busy working on just getting the site up and running that I haven’t had any time to actually finish any posts. But there’s stuff in progress! I’m working on two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-eO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI love what I call atypical logics – that is, logics that do something
\ndifferent from basic propositional or predicate logic. Fuzzy logic is
\nparticularly fun – it’s built around the fundamental idea of
\nvagueness. That is, what happens to concepts like “tallness”, where
\nthere are some people who are clearly tall, and there are others
\nwho are kind-of<\/em> tall, and still others who clearly aren’t tall.
\nAnd yet, there’s absolutely no strict dividing line between those. But
\ncapturing those in logic is difficult!<\/p>\n
\nunderneath it. After all, in normal set theory, a predicate defines
\na set. But if a predicate is completely true for some values, and it’s
\nonly partly<\/em> true for others, then what does a set mean? What does
\nmembership mean?<\/p>\n