The cardinality of fuzzy sets and the continuum hypothesis (Q1311913)

It is well known that mappings, ordinal numbers and cardinalities of sets are the essence of (non-fuzzy) set theory, but the research of these, especially the cardinality of fuzzy sets, has hardly advanced since it is difficult to give them appropriate definitions. In this paper, the cardinality of fuzzy sets, called \(F\)-cardinality, is discussed in detail, and we not only obtain a large part of the results with respect to the cardinality in Cantor's set theory (non-fuzzy set theory), but also get many new properties of \(F\)-cardinalities. It is worth noticing that, from \(F\)-cardinalities, we may gain some new ideas on the Continuum Hypothesis. First, we discuss what a fuzzy mapping from a fuzzy set to another fuzzy set is; second, based on fuzzy mappings, the cardinality of fuzzy sets, \(F\)-cardinality, is defined; and last, by means of \(F\)- cardinality, CH and GCH are considered; for example, for any transfinite cardinality \(\alpha\) (non-\(F\)-cardinality), many \(F\)-cardinalities are inserted between \(\alpha\) and \(2^ \alpha\), which means that GCH does not hold in the range of \(F\)-cardinality.