The hypothetical question of whether a man who was blind from birth but suddenly granted the gift of sight would immediately be able to distinguish a sphere from a cube without touching them was posed to Locke by__________,whose answer was __________.

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The question was posed to Locke by William Molyneux and Locke's reply was that the man would not immediately be able to distinguish the sphere from the cube without touching them. This is known as Molyneux's problem and it has been debated by philosophers for centuries.

The Hypothetical Question of Whether a Man Who Was Blind