Precisiation of meaning via translation into pruf

L. A. Zadeh

pp. 373-401

in: Lucia Vaina, Jaakko Hintikka (eds), Cognitive constraints on communication, Berlin, Springer, 1984

Abstract

It is suggested that communication between humans — as well as between humans and machines — may be made more precise by the employment of a meaning representation language PRUF which is based on the concept of a possibility distribution. A brief exposition of PRUF is presented and its application to precisiation of meaning is illustrated by a number of examples.