For the example he said observe a piece of wax as it is fresh from the bee’s hive. Your senses tell you many things just by examining it. The taste is sweet, the odor is sweet like a flower, it has a yellow color, it has a definite figure, it has a definite size, it’s hard, it’s cold, it’s easily handled, and it makes a noise when it is struck upon. Then Descartes takes the wax and heats it, and observes the same properties. The wax is now tasteless, odorless, the color has been altered, the shape has now changed, the size has become greater, it has transformed into a liquid, it is warm, it is hard to handle and it makes no sound when struck upon. He points out that both are wax even though it doesn’t seem like it to our senses because it

This wax experiment gave backing to his theory of dualism because before his experiment the idea and theory was too abstract but when there was something he could compare it to, he had something real, and people could actually start understanding it. I feel that after this experiment, people started to take Descartes more serious and stopped questioning his thoerys because now he could actually prove one and compare it to his “evil genius” one.

He uses wax because it is a common thing that many people know about, and it gives us reason to mistrust our senses. Descartes also believed that there was some kind of evil genius polluting people’s minds and making them believe things that aren’t actually there. He then looks out the window and says that he sees hats and clothes and that their might not be people outside but they could be machines dressed as people. But he concludes that they must be people inside just like the wax was wax inside even though it was different. He states he thinks this not because he perceives it with his senses and his imagination, but he p

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