The result is a common, easily used basis for Virtual Community. Each thing is, as it were, in a space of possible states of affairs. By a linguistic variable we mean a variable whose values are words or sentences in a natural or artificial language. The closer one looks at a real world problem, the fuzzier becomes its solution. Toward a theory of fuzzy information granulation and its centrality in human reasoning and fuzzy logic.
Precision increases fuzziness.
A word without a known context is a word without significance. To the waterworks engineer it is an engineering element. Option list choices are not procrustean beds like category systems or taxonomies, but can be used, proposed, and modified by anyone. They are as flexible, proposeable, and revisable as information itself. They can even incorporate existing categorical systems by adopting their names as context definitions.