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"Molyneux's Problem" / Shapes
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Molyneux’s wife had become blind after an illness in their first year of marriage, which is one reason he had become interested in such questions. Molyneux concluded that the man would not recognize the shapes by sight alone; he would need to use his sense of touch to learn by experience which visual sensations corresponded to the familiar tactile sensations of roundness and squares. Locke agreed with Molyneux’s answer to the problem, arguing in his ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’ (1690) that perception was a matter of acquired custom and accumulation of knowledge. Without past experience, we would be unable to make sense of the flat patches of color on our retina; we need a mean to “translate” these patches into three-dimensional pictures of the world (much as the artist needs to make us see patches of color on a flat canvas in the same way). In 1709 George Berkeley concurred, proposing in his book ‘A New Theory of Vision’ that a blind man who was suddenly given sight would not be able to discern by his eyes alone what was “high or low,’ erect or inverted.” There was no necessary connection between the world of sight and world of touch; experience is needed to establish a link between them. ~ Page 116
Thank you for the interesting note.
Bonne et agréable semaine clémente.
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