Jonathan B. Marder (marder@agri.huji.ac.il)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:31:49 +0100
Hi Squad, Magnus
I wrote:
>> Exactly! The class objects (mammals or reptiles) were too big.
Maybe "big" was a poor choice on my part. "Course" or "poorly tuned" may
have been better.
Because of this ...
>>They could only be used by approximation, leaving a large rounding
error!
>>...The crisp, rigid Boolean (binary) logic system is a cause of the
fuzziness.
MAGNUS:
>Actually, I didn't mean too "big", I meant what I wrote, "stupid".
"Stupid" is only appropriate if you have something better to offer. In
most cases, the mammal vs. reptile distinction worked adequately.
>Do you also think that the classes SQ and DQ are too big?
Well, if we include "everything classified" in SQ, there is no problem.
Once we subdivide SQ into classes and levels, platypi are inevitable and
force the subdivisions to be reconsidered.
Jonathan
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