Locke Bk II Ch. 9 pt .8- Molineux's Problem

Locke had a lawyer friend named Molineux who posed a very interesting and very relevant question for empiricism. Molineux says that suppose a man grew up blind from birth, and was taught to identify and to tell the difference between certain physical objects and shapes, such as a cube and a sphere, via touch. The man learns to identify figures like these by sliding his hands around the figure and feeling the shape of it. Here is the question: If someone placed a cube and a sphere on a table in front of this man, and if he was instantly endowed with the ability to see, would he be able to identify each object as a cube or a sphere? Molineux answers "no", because the man has yet to experience that what affects his touch in a certain way can affect his eyes correspondingly. This is something that no one could teach him while he was blind, he would have to learn it from experience. Locke agrees wholeheartedly with Molineux.