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Molyneux’s Problem


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Marjolein Degenaar/ Barry Ginley/ Brian Glenney Listen to the recording here or on YouTube William Molyneux posed the following question: Consider a person who has been born blind and who has learnt to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch. If this person could suddenly see, would they be able to distinguish these objects by sight alone? This seventeenth-century […]
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