Schopenhauer's Prolegomenon to Fuzziness

  • Authors:

  • Manuel Tarrazo

  • Affiliations:

  • McLaren School of Business, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1045, USA/ tarrazom@usfca.edu

  • Venue:
  • Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

“Prolegomenon” means something said in advance of something else. In this study, we posit that part of the work by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) can be thought of as a prolegomenon to the existing concept of “fuzziness.” His epistemic framework offers a comprehensive and surprisingly modern framework to study individual decision making and suggests a bridgeway from the Kantian program into the concept of fuzziness, which may have had its second prolegomenon in the work by Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Peirce and Black. In this context, Zadeh's seminal contribution can be regarded as the logical consequence of the Kant-Schopenhauer representation framework.