(1) Ironic principle
A Introduction
Thomas Mann keeps a distance from reality; on one hand to consider the irony as true as possible, and on the other to criticize it. That is ironic. The critical distance could be considered an ironic distance. In fact, a kind of constraint is set to the critical conciseness.
The constraint counteracts the requirement for an exhaustively specified concept language from the nature of language medium. Fuzzy logic maintains that as the complexity of a system increases, our ability to make precise and yet nontrivial assertions about its behavior diminishes. For example, it is very difficult to prove a theorem about the behavior of an economic system that is of relevance to real-world economics.
B Characteristics
The subjectivity could be taken as the common characteristic. The fuzzy theory leads not to the objectivity, but to the subjectivity in the science, while the principle that underlies the way taken by Thomas Mann and Hans Castorp shows the intention for self-conquest. However, that concept is individual, while this one is super-individual. Anyway, the problem is an individual identification for both concepts.
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