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C. The story shows us what “reality is” and what the actual “Elephant” as “object” in the physical world was real. When one is blind intellectually, bigoted in judgment, or habituated in making uninformed judgments they may see and translate it incorrectly. An incorrect understanding may be no fault of the person’s biased judgment, its data of evidence or its false sense of reality but it is still a false premise and reading of what is real. Feelings, deceptions or cultural illusions may influence what we see or understand to be reality or truth but Reality and Truth is still what it is objective, absolute and what is real