POWERSET OPERATOR FOUNDATIONS FOR POINT-SET LATTICE-THEORETIC (POSLAT) FUZZY SET THEORIES AND TOPOLOGIES

Abstract This paper sets forth in detail point-set lattice-theoretic or poslat foundations of all mathematical and fuzzy set disciplines in which the operations of taking the image and pre-image of (fuzzy) subsets play a fundamental role; such disciplines include algebra, measure and probability theory, and topology. In particular, those aspects of fuzzy sets, hinging around (crisp) powersets of fuzzy subsets and around powerset operators between such powersets lifted from ordinary functions between the underlying base sets, are examined and characterized using point-set and lattice-theoretic methods. The basic goal is to uniquely derive the powerset operators and not simply stipulate them, and in doing this we explicitly distinguish between the “fixed-basis” case (where the underlying lattice of membership values is fixed for the sets in question) and the “variable-basis” case (where the underlying lattice of membership values is allowed to change). Applications to fuzzy sets/logic include: development a...

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