Molyneux’s Problem Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms /

• Main Author: Degenaar, Marjolein (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, 147
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Modern philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Artificial intelligence.; Modern Philosophy.; History, general.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; History of Medicine.

Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which is the sphere and which the cube? This was the...