ABSTRACT

The conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. In the book the author examines Borges's "Blue Tigers", "Emma Zunz", "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", and "Funes the Memorious". The author argued that Borges is a forerunner of Hilary Putnam's "internal realism", anticipating his emphasis on the role played by schemes in our attempt to make sense of the world. The author contended, Borges seems to suggest in many of his short-stories that "the idea that the world decides which descriptions are true can no longer be given a clear sense". In "Brodie's Report" Borges appears as a precursor of Putnam's internal realism. In "Brodie's Report", as in "Averroes's Search", the author asserted, it is unable to acquire any perspective on objects that does not already imply a conceptual scheme. The author pointed out here that the stories end up in radical subjectivism.