The inference rules can be represented in a table very clearly. Thereby, it can easily be overviewed which conjunctions exist or not. Arbitrarily, the minimum operator is selected for the AND conjunction, and the maximum operator is selected for the OR conjunction. The inference follows according to the Max/Min method, the defuzzification does according to the centroid method.

Table 1 Inference rules

Voice Very soft Disease light OR Ironic distance very far

Voice Soft Disease middle AND ironic distance far, Disease heavy AND ironic distance far

Voice Mild Disease middle AND ironic distance middle

Voice Strong Disease light AND ironic distance far, Disease middle AND ironic distance near, Disease heavy OR ironic distance near

　Thereby the preliminary works are calculated following the fuzzy logic. Hereinafter, the mode of operation is shown by means of a concrete numerical example.

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