This rule base is firstly designed with certainty degrees embedded in the antecedent terms as well as in the consequent terms.
But one is misled by the usages of language into imagining that it is merely the final term of the series, Manycleft-footed for instance, that constitutes the whole differentia, and that the antecedent terms, Footed, Cleft-footed, are superfluous.
We use a correctness-preserving transformation to simplify the output computation: a global transformation of imprecision of inputs, vagueness of antecedent terms and smoothness requirements of outputs into a set of off-line convolution operations applied to the corresponding antecedent crisp partition.
Such a rule base is designed with belief degrees embedded in the consequent terms as well as in the all antecedent terms of each rule, which is shown to be capable of capturing vagueness, incompleteness, uncertainty, and nonlinear causal relationships in an integrated way.
It is a graph view showing the selected term and all its antecedent terms.
In a small proportion of patients, death from asthma can be sudden and unexpected (sudden asphyxic asthma), without obvious antecedent long-term deterioration of asthma control, the so-called 'sudden onset' or type 2, scenario of asthma death [ 18, 19, 20, 21].
LERAD rules are defined in Eq. 2. Each rule is defined by an antecedent, the left term of the rule and, a consequent, the right term of the rule.
Introduce, too, the term antecedent.
Furthermore, it is considered an antecedent for long-term levels of depression and anxiety symptoms [ 6] and a predictor of long-term general well-being [ 7].
In any case Carnap's suggestion is as follows (where for convenience terms are used autonymously): Let T be the totality of theoretical postulates, and C be the totality of mixed sentences (the sentences of the theory containing both antecedent and novel terms).
The superimposition of a major depressive episode on antecedent dysthymia is termed as double depression [ 3].
