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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 09:01:57 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    Mainichi Shimbun's English site (17 Oct 2024) carries the following 2 articles:
    1. Japan ruling party not assured of majority in upcoming election (Kyodo)
    https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241017/p2g/00m/0na/007000c

    2.Japan ruling party may secure majority in upcoming election: Mainichi survey
    https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241017/p2a/00m/0na/005000c

    i.e. the polls are rather like the story of the blind men and an elephant:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
    #Japan #polls #elephant

    In conversation about a month ago from toad.social permalink

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      Blind men and an elephant
      The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part of the animal's body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then describe the animal based on their limited experience and their descriptions of the elephant are different from each other. In some versions, they come to suspect that the other person is dishonest and they come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they ignore other people's limited, subjective experiences which may be equally true. The parable originated in the ancient Indian subcontinent, from where it has been widely diffused. The Buddhist text Tittha Sutta, Udāna 6.4, Khuddaka Nikaya, contains one of the earliest versions of the story. The Tittha Sutta is dated to around c. 500 BCE, during the lifetime of the Buddha. Other versions of the parable describes sighted men encountering a large statue on a dark night...

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