In their lives, struggles, and obsessions, Borges, Heisenberg, and Kant pushed far enough against the limits of imagination, observation, and thought to unearth the antinomies engendered by that forgetting. This book is divided into four sections, each of which revolves around one of those antinomies: Are space and time infinitely divisible, or are they composed of indivisible chunks? Is there something like a supreme and unconditional being, or is everything in existence conditioned and affected by something else? Is there a spatial or temporal edge to the universe, or does it extend
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