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This story is cited by Michel Foucault as the inspiration for his book The Order of Things, in which he writes that Borges’s celestial emporium “shattered…all the familiar landmarks of my thought…breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other” (Foucault, 1970, p. xv).
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Watson, D.S. Reply to Tom Sterkenburg’s Commentary. Philos. Technol. 36, 69 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-023-00674-z
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