ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Borges's Blue Tigers, Emma Zunz, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Funes the Memorious etc that emphasises Borges's understanding of the relationship between representation and reality. Alexander Craigie's disk-like stones, recalls the people of the village nicknamed "blue tigers", is interpreted as a manifestation of the zahir, the visible aspect of the divinity. With the disks that challenges people mathematics, Craigie resorts to Spinoza's Ethics. Whatever people's interpretation of the enigmatic blue stones, it is clear that Borges's story anticipates Rorty's understanding of representation, shown in Emma Zunz. Like Blue Tigers and Emma Zunz, the Berkeleyan world of Tlon appears to foretell Rorty's world of descriptions. Locke argues a language in which a distinct name is assigned to every particular thing would not be of any great use for the improvement of knowledge. In Nietzsche's view, conceptualizing or imposing order upon the chaos of sense-impressions is needed for the practical requirements.
