Against Jon Stewart’s interpretation of Borges’ «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius» and Berkeley’s philosophy
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This paper is a critique of the article by contemporary philosopher Jon Stewart, entitled: Borges and the Refutation of Idealism: A Study of «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius», which develops a Kantian interpretation of Borges’ story «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius» as if it were a literary refutation of Berkeley’s philosophy, analogous to Kant’s supposed refutation of it. In this respect, I refute each of the supposed contradictions and inconsistences that Stewart identifies in Berkeley’s philosophy and thus prove that Borges’ story is not a refutation of it.
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