On Exactitude in Science

By Jorge Luis Borges

1946

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"On Exactitude in Science" or "On Rigor in Science" (the original Spanish-language title is "Del rigor en la ciencia") is a one-paragraph short story by Jorge Luis Borges, about the map-territory relation, written in the form of a literary forgery.

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Jorge Luis Borges

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