Interpreting linguistically quantified propositions

We discuss the idea of a linguistic quantifier and fuzzy set representations of these objects. We describe two formalisms for evaluating the truth of linguistically quantified propositions such as Most winter days are cold. the first approach is based upon a probabilistic interpretation and the second is based upon a logical interpretation, and uses a generalization of the “and” and “or” operations via OWA operators. We suggest an application of these quantified statements for the representation of the quotient operator in fuzzy relational data bases. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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