They had a mission and they stuck to it. That influenced me deeply. Then while studying at the University of Tehran, the intellectual climate at that time was deeply influenced by the French culture as most of the professors had been educated in France along the lines of Cartesian tradition. That means they were very precise. So even though you might be thinking about very imprecise things, you had to think about them very precisely.
Fuzzy Logic is like that.
It's really an exact way of thinking about very ambiguous and obscure things. You see, pages and pages of very precise mathematical formulas. Fuzzy Logic is not abstract thinking. In reality, it's very concrete. It's built on very precise formulas.