do all parts only summed up and ordered to make up a whole? To the blind men and the elephan
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Explanation:
The blind men and the elephant is a parable, a story with a moral or instructive value about four blind men who want to understand what an elephant was. The elephant was brought into town from a far-off land and these men each felt a different part and got into a squabble over what they felt and experienced. The takeaway from the story is that humans are limited by what they perceive and their lack of open mindedness to experience other things, limits their development. Humans understand their reality by subjective experience but may be limited by them. According to the Gestalt school psychology, the whole of an object is always greater than the sum of its part.
The story illustrated it beautifully. The elephant is greater than its tusks, its trunk, its knees or its tail. The elephant aids humans in carrying and lifting heavy loads and leads its own independent existence.