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Descartes Wax Analysis

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Ernan Cortez Philosophy 106 Descartes How is it that the images we get from our five senses come to us? Descartes wax example explains this by showing that if you take a piece of wax and list all the properties from our fives sense which are taste, touch, sound, smell, and look. Now if you take the same exact piece of wax and you melt the wax, all the properties will change. So if the unmelt piece of wax is considered wax, is the changed melted piece of wax still considered wax? This is why Descartes claims that comparing the melted and unmelted wax has nothing to do with our five senses. Another example would be water, water can be a liquid, a gas, and a solid. These are all appearances but they all contradict each others appearances. If
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