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I'm confused...Locke and Molyneux weren't saying the newly sighted person wouldn't be able to distinguish between the shapes, but that they wouldn't be able to
by xwowsersx 14y ago
I'm confused...Locke and Molyneux weren't saying the newly sighted person wouldn't be able to distinguish between the shapes, but that they wouldn't be able to synchronize that distinction with their touch sensations. In other words, they wouldn't be able to identify which was the one they identified, by touch, as spherical and which as square.
- ramchip 14y agoI do think that's what the poster is referring to: > the motion of the head with eyes fixed looking around the border of an object in space approximates the motion of the hand tracing the same object His argument is that this kind of abstract reasoning would be mostly developed by education, so people with very little education would not be able to associate the shapes they see with those they touched.