Edward Synge (1659-1741); bishop of Tuam, writer of a reply to Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious, preacher of toleration, was born #OTD in Inishannon, Co Cork in 1659.

#DIB bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/synge-edward-a8427

He provided the first positive answer to #MolyneuxsProblem, and #WilliamMolyneux wrote of it to Locke, and of Synge as the writer of "A Gentleman's Religion", sold as a work of Locke!

Synge's answer to #JohnToland: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/04/06/belief-and-the-blind-man/

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Phenomenology and the Contents of Perception

Molyneux’s Problem

William Molyneux sent a letter to John Locke in which he put forward the following problem:

Whether a man who has been born blind and who has learnt to distinguish and name a globe and a cube by touch, would be able to distinguish and name these objects simply by sight, once he had been enabled to see.

My answer: Nein. He would not.

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