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From: gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <3503@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 16:12:40 GMT
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Reply-To: gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Keywords: reality credibility validity
Summary: Unfair attack on an elephant

Once upon a time there were five blind men who encountered
an elephant and Sarge Gerbode.

The first grasped the elephant's trunk.  "Aha!" he said, "the
elephant is like a snake!"

The second grasped the elephant's leg.  "No!" he said, "the
elephant is like a tree!"

The third felt the elephant's side.  "Not at all," he said,
"the elephant is like a wall!"

The fourth felt the elephant's tail.  "You're all wrong," he
said, "the elephant is like a rope!"

The fifth blind man said, "I think, if we perform further
experiments, and reason about the results, we can construct
a fairly good idea about what an elephant is.  It may be
that we can even put this elephant to good use."

"No," said Sarge Gerbode.  "There is no objective reality.
And there is no elephant."  And he got on the elephant and
rode away into the sunset.
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