A FOUNDATION FOR A THEORY OF POSSIBILITY

1 January 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Cybernetics

Vol. 10 (1-3) , 177-204
https://doi.org/10.1080/01969728008927631

Abstract

A possibility function for a variable A over a set X is defined as a mapping from subsets of X to the unit interval, indicating the possibility that a realization of A is in that subset of X. We discuss the types of possibility functions derived from various types of informational structure about A. We discuss ordinal, fuzzy, and cardinal information.

Keywords

THEORY OF POSSIBILITY
FOUNDATION FOR A THEORY

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