If there are no sighted men, how could the blind men in the fable know that they were in fact sensing pieces of a unified reality, the elephant? I suspect this is the main interesting problem in ontology now. It is not in fact self-evident that the universe is a unified reality.
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Replying to @vgr
It is at least a dangerous analogy when dealing with infinitely large systems. Notably, all attempts to create a universal ontology for the conceptual universe have led to madness and despair (see Leibniz characteristica universalis, GML, SGML, &c.)
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Replying to @viveka
Heh Leibniz is where I got started thinking of this.
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