A) Memory
As Hanamura (2005) explained, memory serves as the basis of ironic relations because inference is based on it. It is consciously simplified to avoid making the understanding of the fuzzy logic difficult.
Memory is characterized by the ability to save information and recall it as needed. For this, there are two different methods: short-term memory and long-term memory. The former saves information for a few seconds to minutes, and the later retains it for a lifetime.
There are two classifications for short term memory, sensory memory and primary memory.
Sensory stimuli are automatically saved in the sensory memory for a period of few hundred milliseconds to be coded for short-term storage, and to move into the most important features. The memory begins to fade immediately after the acceptance. The transmission of information from the short-term sensory memory to a stable memory can happen in two ways; the first is the verbal coding of the sensory data, the second is a non-verbal way that is little-known.
Primary memory performs the temporary acceptance of verbally coded materials. Its capacity is smaller than sensory memory. Non-verbal coded material is simplified from the primary memory to the stable secondary memory during “exercises”, for example, repetition.
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