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Chapter 6 interprets Zadeh’s notion of fuzziness in terms of a constructivist view of the role of language in relation to human thinking and illustrates how fuzziness is constructed by language as an inherent property of how we construe our experience of the world as meaning organized into networks of fuzzy classes. The nature of fuzzy classes of meaning is illustrated typologically in terms of the system network of PROCESS TYPE in English that is complemented by fuzzy representations of topology. This illustrative example of a system network points to the overall potential of the grammar of English being instantiated in a given situation, accumulating relative frequencies to form probabilities of various features in the overall systemic potential of language.