Real-valued multisets and fuzzy sets (Q1825866)

The author introduces a first-order theory of multisets with real-valued ``multiplicities''. This approach starts purely abstract without giving any idea of how to understand such ``multiplicities''. As an application he shows how to get fuzzy sets in this ``world'': one simply has to read the membership degrees as multiplicities. For the real-valued multisets as well as for those ones coding fuzzy sets, cumulative hierarchies are given. The latter hierarchy of fuzzy sets essentially was considered already by \textit{D. Klaua} [Monatsber. Deutsch. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 8, 161-177 (1966; Zbl 0154.260) and ibid. 8, 782-802 (1966; Zbl 0168.008)] which holds true also for a natural embedding of the class of crisp sets into the class of fuzzy sets [\textit{D. Klaua}, ibid. 9, 258-272 (1967; Zbl 0221.02050)]. The neglect of that approach of Klaua's is astonishing all the more the author is comparing his approach with a lot of other proposals for set theories of fuzzy sets.