The finger shades into the hand, the hand shades into the wrist, the wrist into the arm. Earth's atmosphere shades into space. The mountain crumbles into a hill and in time crumbles into a plain. The growing human embryo passes into a living human being and a living brain decays into death. But the labels will pass from accurate to inaccurate as the things change.
Language ties a string between a word and the thing it stands for.
When the thing changes to a nonthing, the string stretches or breaks or tangles with other strings. Our world of words soon looks like a fishing boat that drifts with thousands of tangled and broken lines. Kosko is a professor of engineering and a leading proponent of computers that think in fuzzy terms like human beings. We think we know the fuzzy set of murder acts and the fuzzy set of wrong acts or wrong things. We can find chunks of space-time that are murder acts.