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标题：Borges and the Refutation of Idealism: A Study of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
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作者：John Stewart
期刊名称：Ideas y valores : Revista Colombiana de Filosofía
印刷版ISSN：0120-0062
出版年度：1996
卷号：45
期号：101
页码：64-99
语种：English
出版社：Universidad Nacional de Colombia
摘要：This paper tries to demónstrate that Borges' celebrated story, "Tlón, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," contains a reductio ad absurdum argument of a form of subjective idealísm usually associated with Berkeley. To show the íncoherences that result from the idealísm of Berkeley, Borges makes use of ideas which may be fruitfully illuminated by comparison with kantian arguments against subjective idealísm. He puts these arguments ín the form of a cuento which illustrates the absurdities and contradictions of this ídealist position. Specifically, he demónstrales that a radically subjective idealísm is self-contradictory since it renders all objective experience indetermínate and incoherent.