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Elephant test
The term elephant test refers to the ability to recognise something while being unable to describe it. It may be derived from a version of the Indian tale of the Blind Men and an Elephant, possibly from the poem, "The Blindmen and the Elephant," by John Godfrey Saxe, which explains how six blind men each feel only one part of an elephant and come to argue that it is similar to a wall, a spear, a snake, a tree, a fan, and a rope, respectively: each has a completely different interpretation of what an elephant is like, and the complete description can only be derived by combining their information.
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