Molyneux
On 7 July 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux
(1656–1698) sent a letter to John Locke in which he put forward a
problem which was to awaken great interest among philosophers and other
scientists throughout the Enlightenment and up until the present day.
In brief, the question Molyneux asked was whether a man who has been
born blind and who has learnt to distinguish and name a globe and a
cube by touch, would be able to distinguish and name these objects
simply by sight, once he had been enabled to see.
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