Add to ORKGIn the 1700s, William Molyneux asked John Locke to consider if a man who was blind at birth, without any experience of vision, would, if given vision, be able to differentiate a sphere from a cube using his newly-acquired vision alone. “Molyneux’s Question” asks if one sense-modality, or single distinct sense, can be translated to another sense-modality without experience of both senses. Empiricists like Molyneux and Locke believe that knowledge is based in experience. Therefore, an empiricist answer to “Molyneux’s Question” is that such a man could not differentiate a sphere from a cube using vision alone, as the man has no prior visual experience, and sense-modalities cannot be innately translated. Psychological case studies fail to answe...