Future is Where Concepts, Theories and Applications Meet (also in Fuzzy Logic)

According to what the title of our present contribution explicitly states, we shall try to focus on a few loci in which—we think—interesting future developments can happen. Needless to say that for what regards the topics involved, our comments and indications are strictly connected and biased by our previous work, knowledge, and preferences. However, as it will be apparent soon, the majority of the pages which follows will deal with very general epistemological remarks; and these last ones, instead, should apply—in general—to the development of any field of investigation. This, at least, has been the conviction, which grow up while fighting against the difficulty of understanding the dynamics and evolution of the concepts involved and their ability/inability to generate useful and adequate formal theories. Let us try to tell this better. While writing the paper, we had the impression that we should think about the problems and questions generated by the attempt to answer to the starting, initial question of looking at the future of fuzzy logic, by assuming a very general point of view, otherwise—it seemed to us—it would be impossible to proceed in a fruitful and satisfactory way.