ABSTRACT

There is an old Indian tale about six blind men who were asked to describe what an elephant looks like by touching it. The first blind man touched the elephant’s leg and reported that it “looked” like a tree trunk. The second one touched the elephant’s stomach and said that the elephant was a wall. The third one touched the elephant’s ear and said: it was a fan. The fourth blind man touched the elephant’s tail and described the elephant as a piece of rope. The fifth one felt the elephant’s tusks and described it as a spear. And the sixth blind man rubbed the elephant’s snout and got very scared because he thought it was a snake. All of them got into a big argument about the “appearance” of an elephant. Each blind man had touched the elephant but each of them gave a different description of the animal. So, which answer is right? All of them!