Lettre sur les aveugles
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Diderot's essay takes up a question that was much debated in his day: how much of our sight comes from the eyes alone, and how much we learn through experience. Surgeons had recently restored sight to people who had been blind from birth, which made the issue urgent.
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The author considers how such a person would make sense of shapes, distances and solid forms that were previously known only through touch. He argues that a newly sighted person would not at once recognize what they see, and would need time to connect the images of the eye with what the hand had already taught them.
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