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Fuzziness is not a priori an obvious concept and demands some explanation. "Fuzziness" is what Black (NF 1937) calls "vagueness" when he distinguishes it from "generality" and from "ambiguity". Generalizing refers to the application of a symbol to a multiplicity of objects in the field of reference ambiguity to the association of a finite number of alternative meaning having the same phonetic form. But, the fuzziness of a symol lies in the lack of well-defined boundaries of the set of objects to which this symbol applies....