RT Book, Section
T1 Logic, Mathematics and Consistency in Literature: Searching for Don Quixote’s Place
A1 Montero De Juan, Francisco Javier
A1 Romero Pérez, María Del Pilar
A1 Rodríguez Caderot, María Degracia
A2 Nemiche, Mohamed
A2 Essaaidi, Mohamed
AB In this paper we show how uncertainty can be drastically reduced along our linguistic discourse. In particular, after discussing if the analysis of consistency in literature is a legitimate scientific question, from the linguistic analysis of the master piece of Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), “Don Quixote of La Mancha”, we will propose a procedure to check to what extent the linguistic information provided by the author about the walking speed of Don Quixote within La Mancha is consistent. Such a consistency should allow the existence of a region that meets the author’s linguistic description of those trips that involve the place that Cervantes decided not to reveal from the beginning of his book, with the famous sentence “In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind…” Taking into account the distances of those trips involving the unknown village and another well located place, and their estimated walking times obtained from a careful reading of such a novel, we will show that those stories seem to be consistent with a more or less constant walking march per day, still assuring the existence of a region within La Mancha that could be reached during the prescribed time for those trips involving the hidden village.
PB Springer
SN 978-3-319-46164-9
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19433
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19433
LA eng
NO Montero, J., Romero Pérez, M. P. & Rodríguez Caderot, M. D. «Logic, Mathematics and Consistency in Literature: Searching for Don Quixote’s Place». Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems, editado por Mohamed Nemiche y Mohammad Essaaidi, vol. 18, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 221-45. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46164-9_11.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025