INCOMPATIBILITY (Principle of)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1628 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
This principle has been proposed by L.A ZADEH who stated it in the following terms: “… as the complexity of a system increases our ability to make precise and yet significant statements about its behavior diminishes until a threshold is reached beyond which precision and significance (or relevance) become almost mutually exclusive characteristics”.
Moreover, “A corollary principle may be stated succinctly as: ”The closer one looks at a real-world problem, the fuzzier becomes its solution“ (1973b, p.28).
Consequently, in ZADEH's opinion: “… the conventional quantitative techniques of system analysis are intrinsically unsuited for dealing with humanistic systems or, for that matter, any system whose complexity is comparable to that of humanistic systems” (Ibid).
This has been the reason why ZADEH introduced the concepts of fuzzy logics.
It is noteworthy that these seem to apply basically to systems whose behavior is chaotic.