Zen and Ambiguity

Some decades back, a way of thinking emerged - principally in the Southwest, high desert of the United States - which was distinctly non-Western. It built on the work of people like Lotfi Zadeh. At first, they focused on something called “fuzzy logic”. There was massive opposition, particularly from the University engineering schools. The whole idea that A was A and Not Not A was so central to the dominant thinking that the proposition that A might be more or less A and a little bit B and more than a little bit C was completely unacceptable.