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Abstract Maps: The Possible Logical Multiverse in 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' by Jorge Luis Borges

  • 1. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México)

Description

This article proposes a lecture of the story «Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius»
by Jorge Luis Borges analyzing, from a rhetorical-argumentative perspective, the 
question of the logical multiverse. Considering this, the approach is grounded on 
the possible worlds’ theory by Gottfried Leibniz and modal realism; together with 
multiverse astronomical postulates. The reading of this story in particular as an 
exemplification of the presented theoretical axis is pertinent, inasmuch as its 
argument raises the possible human fictionality. Therefore, it is considered that 
this work presents the problem of self-referentiality in the world (or universe) 
when different logical reality layers are created.

Notes

This article was written thanks to the support of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Ref. E430/I.A./54339/20) and the Secretaría de Educación Pública de México for doctoral studies overseas from 2013 to 2017 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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