I shy away from fuzzy logic because I used it as a formalism to justify my religious beliefs. (In particular, “Possibilistic Logic” allowed me to appear honest to myself—and I’m not sure how much of it was self-deception and how much was just being wrong.)
The critical moment in my deconversion came when I realized that if I was looking for truth, I should reason according to the probabilities of the statements I was evaluating. Thirty minutes later, I had gone from a convinced Christian speaking to others, leading in my local church, and basing my life and career on my beliefs to an atheist who was primarily uncertain about atheism because of self-distrust.
Grounding my beliefs in falsifiable statements and probabilistic-ish models has been a beneficial discipline that forces me to recognize my limits and helps predict the outcomes of my actions. I don’t know if I could do the same with fuzzy logic and “reasoning by model.”
I shy away from fuzzy logic because I used it as a formalism to justify my religious beliefs. (In particular, “Possibilistic Logic” allowed me to appear honest to myself—and I’m not sure how much of it was self-deception and how much was just being wrong.)
The critical moment in my deconversion came when I realized that if I was looking for truth, I should reason according to the probabilities of the statements I was evaluating. Thirty minutes later, I had gone from a convinced Christian speaking to others, leading in my local church, and basing my life and career on my beliefs to an atheist who was primarily uncertain about atheism because of self-distrust.
Grounding my beliefs in falsifiable statements and probabilistic-ish models has been a beneficial discipline that forces me to recognize my limits and helps predict the outcomes of my actions. I don’t know if I could do the same with fuzzy logic and “reasoning by model.”