La busca de Averroes
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"La busca de Averroes" is a short essay by Jorge Luis Borges that imaginatively depicts the philosopher Averroes’s futile attempt to understand the concepts of tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without any direct experience of theater.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| La busca de Averroes canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La busca de Averroes Context triple: [Otras inquisiciones, hasPart, La busca de Averroes]
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A.
The Book of Healing
The Book of Healing is a monumental philosophical and scientific encyclopedia by Avicenna that systematically covers logic, natural sciences, mathematics, and metaphysics.
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B.
Tahafut al-Falasifa
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C.
Kitāb al-Manāẓir
Kitāb al-Manāẓir is Ibn al-Haytham’s foundational treatise on optics that systematically analyzes vision, light, and perception and profoundly influenced later Islamic and European science.
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D.
Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd
Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd is a seminal comparative work of Islamic jurisprudence that systematically analyzes differing legal opinions across the major Sunni schools and their underlying reasoning.
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E.
Quaestiones quodlibetales
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La busca de Averroes Target entity description: "La busca de Averroes" is a short essay by Jorge Luis Borges that imaginatively depicts the philosopher Averroes’s futile attempt to understand the concepts of tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without any direct experience of theater.
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A.
The Book of Healing
The Book of Healing is a monumental philosophical and scientific encyclopedia by Avicenna that systematically covers logic, natural sciences, mathematics, and metaphysics.
-
B.
Tahafut al-Falasifa
Tahafut al-Falasifa is a seminal 11th-century Islamic philosophical work by Al-Ghazali that critiques the metaphysical doctrines of the Muslim Peripatetic philosophers and challenges the compatibility of their ideas with orthodox theology.
-
C.
Kitāb al-Manāẓir
Kitāb al-Manāẓir is Ibn al-Haytham’s foundational treatise on optics that systematically analyzes vision, light, and perception and profoundly influenced later Islamic and European science.
-
D.
Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd
Bidayat al-Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd is a seminal comparative work of Islamic jurisprudence that systematically analyzes differing legal opinions across the major Sunni schools and their underlying reasoning.
-
E.
Quaestiones quodlibetales
Quaestiones quodlibetales is a collection of medieval scholastic disputations by Duns Scotus that addresses a wide range of philosophical and theological questions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalized essay
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ibn Rushd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsMotif |
misinterpretation of texts
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scholarly commentary ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
epistemological limits
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hermeneutics ⓘ intercultural translation ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Ibn Rushd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| genre |
metafiction
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philosophical fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| hasAuthorialIntrusion | true ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | widely studied in Borges scholarship ⓘ |
| hasImaginedHistoricalFigure | Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMetafictionalElement | author comments on his own difficulty in imagining Averroes ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeFrame | fictional reconstruction of Averroes’s intellectual struggle ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn |
difficulties of cross-cultural understanding
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relationship between language and reality ⓘ |
| hasSettingPeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
| hasTitleMeaning | The Search for Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | El Aleph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAbout | Averroes’s attempt to understand tragedy and comedy from Aristotle’s Poetics without knowledge of theater ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | magic realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
self-referential commentary
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third-person narration ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La busca de Averroes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Averroes struggles to understand Aristotle’s concepts of tragedy and comedy without any direct knowledge of theater. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfFirstBookEdition | Editorial Losada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencesAuthor | Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| referencesWork | Poetics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Córdoba
NERFINISHED
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medieval Islamic Spain ⓘ |
| theme |
cultural incommensurability
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failure of knowledge ⓘ limits of understanding ⓘ nature of representation ⓘ translation and interpretation ⓘ |
| workIn | Borgesian canon ⓘ |
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