> Still, most of Zadeh’s colleagues in the West continued to express disdain. The electrical engineer Rudolph Kálmán called fuzzy logic “a kind of scientific pe

> Still, most of Zadeh’s colleagues in the West continued to express disdain. The electrical engineer Rudolph Kálmán called fuzzy logic “a kind of scientific permissiveness.” The mathematician William Kahan dismissed it as “the cocaine of science.” But Zadeh’s idea persisted. Since 1965, that inaugural paper has accumulated nearly ninety-three thousand academic citations, according to Google Scholar. Reminds me of the saying that academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so low.