Step 1 In the second meditations Descartes argument that the mind and the body are completely separate, but two distinct thing. Just as wax has clear properties of color, shape,size, smell and even taste, and it has a distinguishable sound when it is struck. It has everything that a body has to be known to be distinct as possible, but when near a hot fire the property of the wax changes completely to the point that it is unrecognizable from its original shape. The color changes, texture and smell changes, and the shape is completely different,and it will not make a sound when struck or hit, although the same wax remains. He believes that the body cannot identify through its scenes, claiming that the nature of the wax is recognized by the
