Blind men and an elephant
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title:
Blind men and an elephant
text:
The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other. In some versions, they come to suspect that the other person is
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encyclopedia
description:
Parable illustrating ontologic reasoning
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
date created:
2006-05-25T17:56:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:45:58Z
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