You have an excellent cadence. Without hearing what Descartes thought about wax, it makes sense that he'd focus on it as a thought experiment. Wax is a material that obviously transforms from a solid, to a liquid, to a gas, with a release of heat and light energies. Very rich thought space. I've never heard the Peripatetic Axiom (nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses). A thing must be sensed before it can be known. I don't know if this is a good idea, but i'll think about it. Oh, i see. Wax like a seal. The impression of the seal on the wax is analogous to the impression of sensor outputs on the intellect. Something like that? The productive evaluation of a thinker with a pen (the resulting system) is an interesting thought space. So he used wax to intuit around the science of phase changes. From solid to liquid. Nice.
You have an excellent cadence.
Without hearing what Descartes thought about wax, it makes sense that he'd focus on it as a thought experiment. Wax is a material that obviously transforms from a solid, to a liquid, to a gas, with a release of heat and light energies. Very rich thought space.
I've never heard the Peripatetic Axiom (nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses). A thing must be sensed before it can be known. I don't know if this is a good idea, but i'll think about it.
Oh, i see. Wax like a seal. The impression of the seal on the wax is analogous to the impression of sensor outputs on the intellect. Something like that?
The productive evaluation of a thinker with a pen (the resulting system) is an interesting thought space.
So he used wax to intuit around the science of phase changes. From solid to liquid. Nice.
Thank you. Re: the peripatetic axiom is helpful to note because Descartes' Wax Example truly poses a problem for the axiom.
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