 | Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth, Henk Thierry, Charles Johannes Wolff - 2000 - 516 pages
...Problem". The Elephantine problem tells us about blind men 1i.e. researchers1 meeting an elephant. "It was six men of Indostan. to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant, 1though all of them were blind1, that each by observation. might satisfy his mind" 1Saxe. in Mirvis... | |
 | Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth, Henk Thierry, Charles Johannes Wolff - 1998 - 530 pages
...Elephantine Problem". The Elephantine problem tells us about blind men (ie researchers) meeting an elephant. "It was six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to sec the elephant, (though all of them were blind), that each by observation, might satisfy his mind"... | |
 | Kelvin T. Erickson, John L. Hedrick - 1999 - 566 pages
...poem of six blind men from Indostan and their encounter with an elephant (Saxe, 1936, pp. 111-112): Ji was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...by observation Might satisfy' his mind. The first (touching its side) "Is nothing but a wallI " The second (feeling its tusk) "Is ven- like a spearI"... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - 390 pages
...observing, or by repeating observations. Realism and the Aim of Science (p. 36) Saxe, John Godfrey It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,...That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The Poetical Works of John Godfrey Saxe The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant Swift, Jonathan That... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - 1999 - 1056 pages
...own mind about Daryl Jones. I have listened to my colleagues, and it reminds me a great deal of the six men of Indostan, to learning much inclined, who went to see the elephant, they all of them were blind, that each by observation might satisfy his mind. I have weighed these... | |
 | Wendy Wren - 1999 - 148 pages
...39 It was six men of Hindostán, To learning much inclined, Who went to see an elephant, (Though ail of them were blind): That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The firsf approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began... | |
 | Doris Schwindt, Howard I. Maibach - 2001 - 384 pages
...dermatitis (Fig. 1) to the blind men in John Godfrey Saxe's famous “Hindoo fable,” which relates how “It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined...That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.” Each in his blindness “saw” the elephant differently — one saw it as a wall, another as a spear,... | |
 | Bruce Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel, Henry Mintzberg - 2001 - 417 pages
...THE ELEPHANT by obhn Godfrey Saxe (1816-1 887) It was six men of Indostan To learning much indined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were...That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The Rrst approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began... | |
 | Nicholas Rescher - 124 pages
...Godfry Saxe's poem "The Blind Men and the Elephant" which tells the story of certain blind sages, those six men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who...see the elephant, (Though all of them were blind). One sage touched the elephant's "broad and sturdy side" and declared the beast to be "very like a wall."... | |
 | Arthur E. Gandolfi, Anna Sachko Gandolfi, David P. Barash - 302 pages
...elephant. as told by the nineteenth-century American poet. John Saxe (1892): It was six men from Industan. to learning much inclined. Who went to see the elephant...blind), That each by observation might satisfy his mind ... Not surprisingly, each blind man felt a different part of the elephant, so that the one touching... | |
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IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. 
