This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Fuzzy logic is a form of logic that extends traditional boolean logic by allowing for degrees of truth, rather than just true or false.

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Fuzzy logic looks beyond traditional logic and the binary duality of true and false, or one and zero. Within fuzzy logic, something can be partially true; it recognizes a spectrum and gradient of ...

A mathematical technique for dealing with imprecise data and problems that have many solutions rather than one. Although it is implemented in digital computers which ultimately make only yes-no ...