Modus tollens with respect to uninorms: U-Modus Tollens

In fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning the inference rule given by the Modus Tollens usually derives into an inequality involving three logical operators: a conjunction, an implication function and a negation. Until now, in this scenario the conjunction has been commonly modeled by a t-norm, but r...

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Authors: Aguilo, Isabel, Riera, Juan Vicente, Suner, Jaume, Torrens, Joan
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Repository:Repisalud
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/22902
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/22902
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Modus Tollens
Uninorm
Implication function
RU-implication
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Summary:In fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning the inference rule given by the Modus Tollens usually derives into an inequality involving three logical operators: a conjunction, an implication function and a negation. Until now, in this scenario the conjunction has been commonly modeled by a t-norm, but recently the possibility of using a more general conjunction has been pointed out. In this work, we want to generalize the Modus Tollens inequality by using a conjunctive uninorm instead of a t-norm, leading to the so-called U-Modus Tollens. First, we give a study of this new property for implication functions in general and then we specially focus on residual implications derived from uninorms. In all cases, we prove that there are a lot of solutions of the U-Modus Tollens and we give a characterization of all the solutions in some particular cases. (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).