How does Fuzzy Logic help deal with social paradoxes?
Simply by tolerating opposites, by balancing them to such degrees that they cease to cancel each other out and become complementary. With Fuzzy Logic we can create an imprecise and easy-to-reshape-and-modify framework in which the ‘either/or’ approach to the contradictory concepts expressed in the paradox is replaced by a ‘both/and’ relationship of their parallel acceptance. For example, a fuzzy framework created in the management practice can meaningfully transform expressions like ‘collaboration OR competitiveness’ into ‘collaboration AND competitiveness’, ‘re-organisation OR stability’ into ‘re-organisation AND stability’. For example, let us consider the ‘independency paradox’: it is only when social dependencies are established that the interdependence emerges, and it is this collective interdependence (between people, and between people and their environment) that provides the notion of individual independence with meaning. This paradox becomes easily manageable any time we apply
