艾可的四本小說分別嘲謹不同時代的一些迷思與謬誤的觀點，但綜觀四本小說，卻見艾可百科全書般的視角與層層疊疊敘述技巧，引出反省知識與概念形成、演進與蛻變的過程。艾可將認識世界與知識抭索的過程約略分做三種迷宮模式，依此迷宮的比喻，本文嘗試檢視這三種思維模式的差異，並側重以第三種開放式迷宮觀看與分析時空概念的轉化與演進。
第二章析縷小說中不定的烏托邦、無名的玫瑰、咫央天涯的小島、與深邃難測的單擺，因為這些主軸皆潛藏不可攻破的元素，小說中主人翁似乎注定無功而返；有趣的是，正因不可解，假設的完整象徵意義反而破碎，恰似迷宮的中心瓦解或是出口分岔歧路，產生多重思考維度的第三類迷宮。異於符號意義的無窮擴張，零碎與邊緣的意象彰顯內蘊的無限性與繁複演變中的一致性。
職是之故，第三章強調重新檢視過去，跳脫既定模式，再次悠遊知識迷宮，尋覓變化中的和諧，並且指出四本小說開啟的視角。<<波多里諾>>描繪前進烏托邦中的頻頻挫敗，但巧妙地拓展夾於未知之地與知識最前緣的可塑空間。<<玫瑰的名字>>在偵探威廉與見習僧艾森的對話、不同立場的抗衡角力之際，點出中古世紀圖書世界似明未明的形式。<<昨日之島>>主題在於尋找時間的刻度與宇宙的鐘錶所，但在十七世紀鐘錶等儀器弊作未臻完善之前，經度的迷思儼然成為自然神學論述與機械論頡頏的領域，然而初步的全球時鐘觀念在此議論紛紛中孕育誕生。<<傅科擺>>反謹懷疑論者的盲點，嘲弄極度荒繆的相對主義者。從解碼的遊戲觀之，捨棄文字的基本意義，不斷追逐所謂的神祕意義，終究陷入無意義的字面連接病態之中與一串串惡性循環。然而傅科擺雖有無窮可能的延伸意義，其本力即是說明時間與周期、地方引力、地球自轉等基本觀念的最佳佐證，這些知識自故代至今逐漸累積而成，宇宙運行的祕密原來公開地藏在傅科擺運動中。
第四章以繪圖觀念細微的演變談詹識迷宮的變異與創新。表面上中古世亡的世界地圖僅依循基督教神學的理念，但仔細分析及療別相同的T-O概念，卻醞釀不同製圖風格與觀點的變化，例如地圖中心點慢慢從耶路撒冷轉至羅馬或其他城市，對日出那端美好之地的描繪也在轉變之中；更有趣的是，依照聖經字面解釋所畫出的世界如一會幕，其實已透露非平面地球的思維原型。中古世紀的地理知識有限，但地圖具體呈現當時的宇宙觀與空間觀念，<<波多里諾>>嘗試定出更東方的聖地，<<玫瑰的名字>>中的圖書館結構在於模仿並超越世界地圖模式，都企圖在有限的藩籬中，尋覓新的路徑認識世界。十七世紀已有一些粗略的地球儀，由於投影幾何學與解析幾何學相關知識的發展，三度空間與地球形狀等觀念也比較完備。然而<<昨日之島>>的主角因船難漂泊到太平泮國際換日線附近，重新審視關於對蹠點觀念的誤解，並從消失的昨日謎團，漸悟今日、昨日與明日共存的時空，瞥見空間與時間已慢慢成為互相轉換的概念。<<傅科擺>>的解碼遊戲中，嚴肅的課題在於追求知識的聖杯，雖然艾可冷眼笑看修士、讀書人、或知識份子棧戀知識的貪噌癡百態，卻細膩地反省感官知覺建立的知識架構之不可靠性，並點醒即使在後現代的今日，許多謬誤知識的建立與思維的模式仍有待檢驗。

The general aim of this dissertation is to scrutinize how Eco's four novels epitomize the formation of knowledge as an open work, which ,according to the three model of conjecturality Eco enumerates, is the third type of cognitive labyrinth and activates innovation ways of thinking and multi-simensional complexities. In chapter two, an analysis of the indefinite Prester John Kingdom, the nameless Rose, the unattainable Island, and the enigmatic Pendulum and their indecipherability will be the focus. The totality of these singe is down and the elastixity and plasticity of each fragment will foster tje greatest semiotic capacity and generate a unity of multiplicity. Starting form the conclusion achieved in the first two chapters, the third chapter introduces a reconsideration of the cognitive labyrinth as an open system:Baudolino extends an in-between space between the frontier of the known world and the terra incognita,The Name of the Rose unfolds a medieval bookish world whose form is diaphanous, the longitude-seeking xause and the related on the concepts of natural and mechanic clockworks in The Island of the Day Before pave the way to the emergent idea of a universal clock, and Foucault's Pendulum appeals to the bonded but infinite movements of the pendulum. Chapter four will investigate hoe some innoveative notions of time and space can be discerned via examining the subtle variances of medieval mappae mundi and early cartographic and globe-maling technology. In each novel, Eco expertly satirizes the desire to possess knowledge and ironically talks of the unreliability of human-centered knowledge . Taken together, these four novels provide an encyclopedia-like scope which makes possible to look into how the formation of certain concepts is proceeding.

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