# Molyneux’s Question - Author: **utm.edu** - Document Tags: [[Molyneux question]] - [URL link](https://iep.utm.edu/molyneux/)  ## Highlights - Molyneux’s question, also known as Molyneux’s problem, concerns the possibility that a person born blind might immediately identify a shape previously familiar to them only by touch if they were made to see. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4za7b05e3924qe43bahn8k)) --- - “Suppose a Man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t’other, which is the Cube, which the Sphere.  Suppose then the Cube and Sphere placed on a Table, and the Blind Man to be made to see.  Quære, Whether by his sight, before he touched them, he could now distinguish, and tell, which is the Globe, which the Cube (Locke 1694/1979). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4zay4kec4xmvecqsvh84qp)) --- - For instance, if our knowledge of a tomato is acquired from vision and later from touch, then these two different presentations of a tomato might amount to two different concepts of tomato altogether, not to mention the soon-to-be smelled and tasted tomato. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4znvb0g3188vymqx47xjrf)) ---