SLSL fuzzy (logic?)

[David Morris]

I won't agree with you that P's use of the word "fuzzy" demonstrates an
"ignorance of matters of fact."  I think your earlier refference to a cartoon
character is more to the point, and he did say he was going for laughs...

DM

http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/f/fuzzy_logic.html
Fuzzy Logic:  A type of logic that recognizes more than simple true and false
values. With fuzzy logic, propositions can be represented with degrees of
truthfulness and falsehood. For example, the statement, today is sunny, might
be 100% true if there are no clouds, 80% true if there are a few clouds, 50%
true if it's hazy and 0% true if it rains all day. 
Fuzzy logic has proved to be particularly useful in expert system and other
artificial intelligence applications. It is also used in some spell checkers to
suggest a list of probable words to replace a misspelled one. 

http://www.ortech-engr.com/fuzzy/reservoir.html


--- Wasted Words <morewastedwords at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I understand why some readers would prefer to read
> this Introduction as a fiction or some kind of April
> Fools/1984 joke. They contend that  Pynchon must be
> pulling our legs. How else can we account for all the
> errors and the overall fuzziness of it? With the furry
> porcupine the "narrator"  (I say the author -- not
> nearly Tom, but Tom Pynchon himself) demonstrates an
> ignorance of matters of fact. And this is
> disconcerting because he's talking about a story he
> wrote and rewrote. If this Introduction were a fiction
> we might be amused:  We might assume that the author
> knows that the narrator has got the facts wrong and
> that we are now in on it. This is a fairly common
> device in fiction, but in an essay it is called bad
> writing. 
> 
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