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Possibility theory is not fully compositional! A comment on a short note by H.J. Greenberg

✍ Scribed by Didier Dubois; Henri Prade


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
287 KB
Volume
95
Category
Article
ISSN
0165-0114

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✦ Synopsis


A recent short note [H.J. Greenberg, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 86 (1997) 249-250] has assumed that a possibility measure is fully compositional with respect to negation, conjunction and disjunction. Up to a trivial exception, such a possibility measure does not exist. This short note recalls that the calculus of possibility measures on Boolean propositions is not compositional (except for the disjunction) and has little to do with the fully compositional max-rain calculus of degrees of truth for fuzzy propositions.