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2012:blind-men-and-the-elephant [2012/03/17 19:14] frank2012:blind-men-and-the-elephant [2015/12/16 11:03] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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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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 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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