Osherson, Smith and Elkan

There are many famous examples of expert criticism causing untold damage to scientific research. When Minsky noted that a neuron could not perform an exclusive-or he derailed research in artificial neural networks. Fuzzy set theory has attracted expert criticism like few other innovations. Osherson, Smith and Elkan are the critics examined in this paper.

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