Originally included in the second anthology of Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. A poet and an essayist, Borges is generally best-known for his short stories. Life Youth Borges was born... Jorge Luis Borges short stories, El Aleph, published in 1949, "Averroës's Search" imagines the difficulty of the famed Arabic commentator and translator of Aristotle, Averroës, in explaining the concepts of tragedy and comedy. Averroës's difficulty lies in the fact that these concepts could not be expressed in Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. See also Arabic authors Arabic numerals Arabic names... Arabic; no appropriate words existed in Averroës's culture.

The paleontologist and essayist Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a New York-born American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was the most influential and widely read writer of popular science of his generation. Born Jewish, he did not formally practice any organized... Stephen Jay Gould has commented on this Borges story, citing it as an example of For others individuals named Francis Bacon see: Francis Bacon (disambiguation) Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans (January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Albans in 1621; both... Francis Bacon's idola fori or idol of the marketplace, noting that Borges was familiar with and admired Bacon's works.