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    Six blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and each touches a different part of the elephant's body. The first feels the side and thinks the elephant is like a wall. The second feels the tusk and thinks it is like a spear. The third feels the trunk and thinks it is like a snake. The fourth feels a leg and thinks it is like a tree. The fifth feels an ear and thinks it is like a fan. The sixth feels the tail and thinks it is like a rope. Unable to see the whole elephant, each man argues that his limited experience defines what the elephant is really like, showing that perceiving truth depends on having full information.

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    Six blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and each touches a different part of the elephant's body. The first feels the side and thinks the elephant is like a wall. The second feels the tusk and thinks it is like a spear. The third feels the trunk and thinks it is like a snake. The fourth feels a leg and thinks it is like a tree. The fifth feels an ear and thinks it is like a fan. The sixth feels the tail and thinks it is like a rope. Unable to see the whole elephant, each man argues that his limited experience defines what the elephant is really like, showing that perceiving truth depends on having full information.

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    Six blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and each touches a different part of the elephant's body. The first feels the side and thinks the elephant is like a wall. The second feels the tusk and thinks it is like a spear. The third feels the trunk and thinks it is like a snake. The fourth feels a leg and thinks it is like a tree. The fifth feels an ear and thinks it is like a fan. The sixth feels the tail and thinks it is like a rope. Unable to see the whole elephant, each man argues that his limited experience defines what the elephant is really like, showing that perceiving truth depends on having full information.

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    The Blind Men and The Elephant

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    Six blind men encounter an elephant for the first time and each touches a different part of the elephant's body. The first feels the side and thinks the elephant is like a wall. The second feels the tusk and thinks it is like a spear. The third feels the trunk and thinks it is like a snake. The fourth feels a leg and thinks it is like a tree. The fifth feels an ear and thinks it is like a fan. The sixth feels the tail and thinks it is like a rope. Unable to see the whole elephant, each man argues that his limited experience defines what the elephant is really like, showing that perceiving truth depends on having full information.

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    The Blind Men and the Elephant

    by James Baldwin
    There were once six blind men who stood by the road-side every day, and
    begged from the people who passed. They had often heard of elephants, but
    they had never seen one; for, being blind, how could they?
    It so happened one morning that an elephant was driven down the road where
    they stood. When they were told that the great beast was before them, they
    asked the driver to let him stop so that they might see him.
    Of course they could not see him with their eyes; but they thought that by
    touching him they could learn just what kind of animal he was.
    The first one happened to put his hand on the elephant's side. "Well, well!" he
    said, "Now I know all about this beast. He is exactly like a wall."
    The second felt only of the elephant's tusk. "My brother," he said, "You are
    mistaken. He is not at all like a wall. He is round and smooth and sharp. He is
    more like a spear than anything else."
    The third happened to take hold of the elephant's trunk. "Both of you are
    wrong," he said. "Anybody who knows anything can see that this elephant is
    like a snake."
    The fourth reached out his arms, and grasped one of the elephant's legs. "Oh,
    how blind you are!" he said. "It is very plain to me that he is round and tall like
    a tree."
    The fifth was a very tall man, and he chanced to take hold of the elephant's
    ear. "The blindest man ought to know that this beast is not like any of the
    things that you name," he said. "He is exactly like a huge fan."
    The sixth was very blind indeed, and it was some time before he could find the
    elephant at all. At last he seized the animal's tail. "O foolish fellows!" he cried.
    "You surely have lost your senses. This elephant is not like a wall, or a spear, or
    a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan. But any man with a particle of sense
    can see that he is exactly like a rope."
    Then the elephant moved on, and the six blind men sat by the roadside all day,
    and quarrelled about him. Each believed that he knew just how the animal
    looked; and each called the others hard names because they did not agree with
    him. People who have eyes sometimes act as foolishly.

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