Reid’s answer to Molyneux's question the question about the ability of a blind person, newly given sight, to discriminate between a cube and a sphere via vision should be a definitive ‘yes’ on the basis of the role of sensations in Reid's theory of perception. And it is ‘yes.’ But it is also ‘no.’ Reid explicitly answers the question in seemingly contradictory ways. I attempt to diffuse this apparent confusion by showing that Reid's response differs depending upon the subject of whom the question is posed. Subjects capable of abstract spatial reasoning blind mathematicians, say will distinguish the cube from the sphere. Cheselden’s famous young patient, though, is not capable of doing so. After showing how this pair of answers aptly follows from Reid’s Newtonian method, I describe three ways his ‘yes’ answer serves his direct theory of perception.