Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the ...
Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the ...
Thomas Cogswell Upham
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Molyneux to Mr. Locke, whether a blind man, who has learned the differ- ence between a cube and a sphere by the touch, can, on bemg suddenly restored to sight, distinguish between them, and tell which is the sphere and which is the cube, by >the aid of what may be called his new sense merely. And the answer of Mr. Locke was, in agreement with the opinion of Molyneux himself, that he cannot The blind man knows what impressions the cube and sphere make on the organ of tovjch, and by that sense is... able to distinguish between them ; but, as he is ignorant what impression they will make on the organ of si^ht, be is not able, by the latter sense alone, to tell which is the round body and which is the cubic. It was remarked, that solid bodies present to the eye nothing but a certain disposition of light and colours. — ^It seems to follow from this, that the first idea which will be conveyed to the mind on seeljg a globe, will be that of a circle on a plain surface, but variously shadowed with different degrees of light This imperfect idea is correct- ed in this way.
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