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Molyneux's Problem: Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms - International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees M. Degenaar Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996 edition
Molyneux's Problem: Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms - International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees
M. Degenaar
Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. This was the question which the Irish politician and scientist William Molyneux posed in 1688 to John Locke.
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