On the order of triangular norms -- comments on ``A triangular norm hierarchy'' by E. Cretu (Q1867651)

The authors present a critical overview of \textit{E. Cretu}'s paper ``A triangular norm hierarchy'' [Fuzzy Sets Syst. 120, 371-383 (2001; Zbl 0982.03014)]. They make it evident that the results on the order of t-norms (as real functions) presented by Cretu can be found in previous sources and, in a compact form, in their book [Triangular norms. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer (2000; Zbl 0972.03002), Ex. 3.32 and Chapter 6]. (The book appeared between the submission and publication of the paper by Cretu.) According to the paper under review, the only original results of Cretu are in Section~4, where he compares the strength of a semantics of fuzzy logics based on different triangular norms (in the sense of \textit{D. Butnariu, E. P. Klement} and \textit{S. Zafrany} [``On triangular norm-based propositional fuzzy logics'', Fuzzy Sets Syst. 69, 241-255 (1995; Zbl 0844.03011)]). However, these follow also from previous papers [namely \textit{M. Navara}, ``A characterization of triangular norm based tribes'', Tatra Mt. Math. Publ. 3, 161-166 (1993; Zbl 0799.28013) and \textit{D. Butnariu, E. P. Klement} and \textit{M. Navara}, ``All strict triangular norms are `equally strong' '', Proc. Conf. on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1997, 116-124 (1997), Cor. 2.8], which are not mentioned in both sources. A brief overview of the situation can also be found in the review of Cretu's paper [loc. cit.]. The paper under review contains an extensive bliography relevant to properties of t-norms.