Molyneux’s problem solved?

In 1688, an Irish polymath named William Molyneux wrote the English philosopher John Locke a letter in which he posed a vexing question: Could a blind person, upon suddenly gaining the ability to see, recognize an object by sight that he’d previously known by feel? Philosophy of mind. TOK.

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