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See This! Touch That! Molyneux's Perplexing Problem

  • Fletcher Free Library, Fletcher Room 235 College Street Burlington, VT, 05401 United States (map)
 

WITH HOST

Cliff Landesman

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What can you tell about the look of a ball from how it feels or about the feel of a cube from how it looks? Explore one of the oldest, most engaging philosophical thought experiments of all time--Molyneux's problem--with talk, discussion, paper folding, and fun hands-on experiments. Did you know you can hear shapes?

 
 
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