Molyneux’s question asks whether someone born blind, who could distinguish cubes from spheres using his tactile sensation, could recognize those objects if he received his sight. Locke says no: the newly sighted person would fail to point to the cube and call it a cube. Locke never provided a complete explanation for his negative response, and there are concerns of inconsistency with other important aspects of his theory of ideas. These charges of inconsistency rest upon an unrecognized and unfounded assumption that seeing entails recognition. Locke’s negative answer to Molyneux’s question is consistent with his other philosophical commitments.

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洛克对莫利纽克斯问题的回答是否前后矛盾？跨模态识别和视觉识别错误

莫利纽克斯的问题是，一个天生失明的人，他可以通过触觉区分立方体和球体，如果他看到了，是否可以识别这些物体。洛克说不：新近视力的人不会指向立方体并称其为立方体。洛克从未对他的消极反应提供完整的解释，并且有人担心与他的思想理论的其他重要方面不一致。这些不一致的指控建立在一个未被承认和没有根据的假设之上，即看到需要承认。洛克对莫利纽克斯问题的否定回答与他的其他哲学承诺是一致的。