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>Isn't he rejecting philosophy wholesale?
Yes. The point is to reject philosophy in its lust for closure, but not philosophical thinking as a material to propel us beyond that lust (because philosophical thinking is all we have). In brainlet terms: adopting the method without the "methodology." Adopting the method without the academy.

>Maybe it's a weird comparison but isn't this similar to the Jain/Buddhist parable about the blind men and the elephant?
Close, not quite. That parable implies there is universal Truth stratum that we all perceive imperfectly and provisionally, and if we only had a God's POV we could see the elephant for what it is... etc.

Instead of a bunch of men each groping one elephant, imagine instead that every man gropes his own elephant, and for that very reason, it is within the power of every man to know it in full.