"People rarely see living elephants. More frequently, as people encounter the skeleton of a dead elephant, they are compelled to observe the fleshless remains and trace out the living. Therefore, whatever compels the people into imagining the Real is also called '象 (elephant).'"
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人希見生象也,而得死象之骨,案其圖以想其生也,故諸人之所以意想者皆謂之象也。 今道雖不可得聞見,聖人執其見功以處見其形,故曰:「無狀之狀,無物之象。」 Hanfeizi
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Keren Wang's Postscript on the “Elephant” in “Phenomenology.”https://sites.psu.edu/kerenw/?p=364
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