The point of that story is to show that NO ONE HAS IT RIGHT. No one can have absolute truth. Of course that statement is self defeating and does not make any logicla sense.
That is where my logic is not faulty. None of the blind men understood ANYTHING about what they were touching. So your application that they knew some of the nature of the elephant is incorrect. The blind man was not REALLY touching a wall, a rope, or anything he claimed to touch.
So by the storyteller saying that it IS AN ELEPHANT then he has absolute truth. Without the absolute truth "We are describing an elephant" there would be no story.
I never claimed to completely know the nature of the universe. But I do know about truth. I gave the list displayed by Geisler above. Here it is again for a reminder:
· Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independently of anyone’s knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton)
· Truth is transcultural; if something is true, it is true for all people, in all places, at all times (2+2=4)
· Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change (When we began to believe the earth was round instead of flat, the truth about the earth didn’t change, only our belief about the earth changed.)
· Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held. (Someone can sincerely believe the world is flat, but that only makes the person sincerely mistaken.)
· Truth is not affected by the attitude on the one professing it. (An arrogant person does not make the truth he professes false. A humble person does not make the error he professes true.)
· All truths are absolute truths. Even truths that appear to be relative are absolute. (For example, “I brotherdan, feel warm on February 17, 2011” may appear relative truth, but it is actually absolutely true for everyone, everywhere that brotherdan had the sensation of warmth on that day.)