this thought popped into my head yesterday on the way to work and amazingly enough after very little sleep the last two days, i remember what i was thinking about: fuzzy logic:
A type of logic that recognizes more than simple true and false values. With fuzzy logic, propositions can be represented with degrees of truthfulness and falsehood. webopedia definition
I think I can understand why the fact that I don't have an accounting degree didn't matter to this current company I work for, everytime I do the books, they get changed by the corporate group controller..we made too much money, get rid of it, the bottom line has to be xxx but no more than that, etc...its called creative accounting((moving the profit somewhere to hide it) - which I don't like at all but in thinking about it, it reminds me a little of fuzzy logic
Why it reminds me of fuzzy logic, accounting is about true and false values. If the corporate controller is using his own perceived ideas of what we should be making as a bottom line and trust me on this one, I'll never get it right, because everytime I think I get it right, he changes his mind...so bearing in mind that fuzzy logic is propostions with a degree of truthfulness and falsehood then the corporate bottom line represents a falseness with a degree of truthfulness because I am now tracking all their changes via an account (cya), therefore the bottom line reported is 100% true for the group and 0% true for the actuals that happened that month.
Another way to say this is and i think makes a little more sense:
Ø in fuzzy logic, exact reasoning is viewed as a limiting case of approximate reasoning
o the group controller exact reasoning is based on the greatest or least amount or number allowed or possible for his approximate reasoning of our bottom line
Ø in fuzzy logic everything is a matter of degree
o apparently the group thinks that the bottom line is a matter of degrees
Ø Any logical system can be fuzzified
Ø in fuzzy logic, knowledge is interpreted as a collection of elastic or, equivalently , fuzzy constraint on a collection of variables
o the bottom line is interpreted as a collection of someone's knowlegde on how the outcome will be no matter what
Ø Inference is viewed as a process of propagation of elastic constraints.
o the act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true - known to someone, not me but apparently to the group controller
points derived from what do you mean fuzzy?
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