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====== Blind Men and the Elephant ====== | ====== Blind Men and the Elephant ====== | ||
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+ | ==== Authored by Frank Redmond, 2012 ==== | ||
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There is a very famous story about how blind men were trying to identify the true nature of the elephant from their perspective: | There is a very famous story about how blind men were trying to identify the true nature of the elephant from their perspective: | ||
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- | The parallels between this passage and the scene in Hermotimus where Lycinus is telling the fable of the lion's claw: | + | The parallels between this passage and the scene in Hermotimus where Lycinus is telling the fable of the lion's claw are striking: |
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Hermotimus is just like the blind men. That's why Lucian feels the need to lampoon him. He is a dogmatist; real, clear knowledge is very hard if not impossible to know. | Hermotimus is just like the blind men. That's why Lucian feels the need to lampoon him. He is a dogmatist; real, clear knowledge is very hard if not impossible to know. | ||
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