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A topos view of the type-2 fuzzy truth value algebra

Logic 2018-10-18 v1

Abstract

It is known that fuzzy set theory can be viewed as taking place within a topos. There are several equivalent ways to construct this topos, one is as the topos of \'{e}tal\'{e} spaces over the topological space Y=[0,1)Y=[0,1) with lower topology. In this topos, the fuzzy subsets of a set XX are the subobjects of the constant \'{e}tal\'{e} X×YX\times Y where XX has the discrete topology. Here we show that the type-2 fuzzy truth value algebra is isomorphic to the complex algebra formed from the subobjects of the constant relational \'{e}tal\'{e} given by the type-1 fuzzy truth value algebra I=([0,1],,,¬,0,1)\mathfrak{I}=([0,1],\wedge,\vee,\neg,0,1). More generally, we show that if LL is the lattice of open sets of a topological space YY and X\mathfrak{X} is a relational structure, then the convolution algebra LXL^\mathfrak{X} is isomorphic to the complex algebra formed from the subobjects of the constant relational \'{e}tal\'{e} given by X\mathfrak{X} in the topos of \'{e}tal\'{e} spaces over YY.

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@article{arxiv.1810.07565,
  title  = {A topos view of the type-2 fuzzy truth value algebra},
  author = {John Harding and Carol Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.07565},
  year   = {2018}
}