--- Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'll have to say my objection stands.
>  
> Because the point is that blind people learn about an object and infer it's
> shape from words and description of the object without ever seeing them.  

I think the blind form a 3-D model of the world through touch and movement.  I
recall a story of a man who was blind from birth having his vision restored as
an adult.  When he saw a crescent moon, he was surprised because he always
imagined a quarter moon as having the shape of 1/4 of a round cake.


-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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