Wax

half full of donated food, and candles by a Virgin Mary statue. On my left side were the stairs to go to the lower level of the church. I took a deep breath before heading forward, and the only scent I could distinguish was that of burning candle wax. Candles were lit up by parishioners who had made a prayer requests. It took me 3 steps to get to the vestibules and bulletin boards that were full of announcements…

extension, which is not obtained by imagination or by the senses. Descartes uses a piece of wax to represent the body. The wax has flavor (sweet), scent (flowery), color (white), shape (cube-shaped), size (small), texture (hard), temperature (cold), and makes a sound when tapped. When brought to a flame, all the properties of the wax changed, but in the end it is still the same piece of wax. The piece of wax is an extended substance. Extension (3) is used to explain how a body can have many…

Descartes’ dreaming argument questions how we ever truly know whether what we are experiencing is while we are awake, or if we are dreaming. When we dream, we feel and act as though we are awake and living out our lives. Are we? Could it be possible we are always dreaming? In our dreams it certainly seems as though we are able to see and hear things, smell and taste things. We can physically touch and emotionally feel things. Can’t we? Whether our dreams are the amazing kind that leave us…

unseen. Along with this came the rise of concentrated weed. People have been using marijuana concentrates for years, but thanks to dabs, the hype has really taken off. Commonly called wax, oil or shatter,…

They “collected hundreds of feathers . . . and were held together with a strong wax” in order to make wings which they would use in order to escape, and fly away, from their prison. Once the father and son had successfully built their wings for the both of them, hey both set off to fly to the city of Sicily. “Icarus, not too high, not too close to the sun,” his father yelled at him, not wanting caruss wax on his wings to melt, and Icarus fall into the sea and die. However, with Icarus 's craving…

The Stoics’ claimed that the natural world exhibits a rational order that can be explained by appeal to existence and operations of power of reason, which they called Logos. Logos is defined as God, or reason, intelligence or mind. They believe that God, along with the soul/mind consists as a separate entity than the physical body. The stoics defined logos as entity in the universe that’s based on just mind and intellect. Stoics believe logo as an intangible object, entity of the universe.…

The Igbo people started to cast metal in the ninth century, before many other parts of Nigeria. They are the first African tribe to use the lost-wax casting technique. The lost-wax technique involves making and object out of wax, surrounding the wax with clay to make a mold, firing the clay, and melting out the wax, then having a mold to cast the bronze in. The Igbos were the first people to work with copper in West Africa, the Igbos did not know about raising, soldering, riveting…

the body. Through logical deduction, Descartes makes a case for the presence of a higher, heavenly power. With new information from modern science, society contradicts his initial comprehension of mental and physical truths. Using the example of the wax, Descartes argues that the body’s senses fail the mind. To illustrate how the senses distract the mind from understanding, Descartes points out how a candle alters in appearance when burnt. The…

doubt. He uses wax to prove that the sensory experience is not knowledge. He takes a block of wax and takes in its characteristics like what it feels, looks, and smells like. Then he puts it near a fire and watches as the wax melts. He then compares the previous characteristics with the new ones. As completely separate objects they share no similarities but Descartes notes that he knows it is the same wax. Therefore, our senses cannot be trusted for they said the same wax was different wax, so…

Rene Descartes, also known as the father of modern philosophy, was a French philosopher and scientist, well known for his notable philosophical writings. One of the most prominent of his writings is Meditations on First Philosophy. In his meditations, Descartes calls into question some major philosophical arguments, including the existence of God, the nature of human beings, and the objective of material things, among others. In the second meditation, Descartes discusses “the nature of the human…