Molyneux's problem : three centuries of discussion on the perception of forms /

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...

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Main Author: Degenaar, Marjolein
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, Netherlands ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1996]
Series:Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 147.
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by Degenaar, Marjolein
Published 1996
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