ze; and that it is hard and cold and easy to touch. Descartes basically describes the piece of wax through all of his sensory perceptions. He then conducts an experiment where he moves the wax towards a fire, and notes how everything he had observed changes from the heat... " I move the wax towards the fire; it loses what was left of its taste; it gives up its smell; it changes color, it loses its shape; it gets bigger; it melts; it heats up; it becomes difficult to touch; it no long!
             er makes a sound when struck". (Descartes, 120). Descartes finds that there are no remaining properties that the wax once had. He ponders what there was in the wax that he thought he understood. He realizes that nothing he perceived through the
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