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The term elephant test refers to the abilty to recognise an object or situation while being unable to describe that object or a situation. It may be derived from the poem, The Blind Men and the Elephant, by John Godfrey Saxe, which explains how six blind men each have completely different interpretations of what an elephant is like, and the complete description can only be derived by combining their information

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