A reflection on what is a membership function.
This paper is just a first approach to the idea that the membership function μP of a fuzzy set labelled P is, basically, a measure on the set of linguistic expressions x is P for each x in the corresponding universe of discourse X. Estimating that the meaning of P (relatively to X) is nothing else than the use of P on X, these measures seem to be reached by generalizing to a preordered set the concept of Fuzzy Measure, introduced by M. Sugeno, when the preorder translates the primary use of the...