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To consider the dynamism of a writing piece, Hanamura (2005) examines the irony of Thomas Mann as a kind of inference because his irony can be seen as a concrete application of his knowledge. This time I select the Magic Mountain because the irony in the Magic Mountain can be seen as an intersection of his irony throughout his works.
Sometimes the irony is also told as the beginning of individual subjective affirmation. Of course, I have a certain affinity to his irony. One needs irony to make the logical impossibility of parallel opposition possible. The irony makes the conflicting sentence invalid because it doesn’t know the final decision. That is the inference.
Irony connects point of views such as “neither nor” and “as well as” to the dialectical unit. It makes reservations for both sides, therefore it can engage in both sides at the same time. Irony appears as a necessary accessory of the humane life form. Given another function, irony also provides an aesthetic component, where it is an expression of aesthetic indifference and is affected by the universal empathy.
One can see it in the Magic Mountain as persistence to a scary degree. That is for example, the irony of Hans Castorp. He takes the viewpoints of both sides alternately, while criticizing one of the sides each time. The irony of Hans Castorp is simply the expression of double conflicting engagement.
Certainly, it was until now hard to represent irony in the area of theoretical linguistics. Hence I choose “fuzzy logic” as a trial, because one can find the point of contact between the irony of Thomas Mann and the fuzzy logic of Rotfi A. Zadeh.

花村嘉英（2005）「計算文学入門−Thomas Mannのイロニーはファジィ推論といえるのか？」より英訳 translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura