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The wax argument or the ball of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy. He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism.

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  • The wax argument or the ball of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy. He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism. (en)
  • O argumento da cera ou o exemplo da bola de cera é um experimento mental que René Descartes criou na segunda de suas Meditações sobre a Primeira Filosofia . Ele o criou para analisar quais propriedades são essenciais para os corpos, mostrar quão incerto nosso conhecimento do mundo é comparado ao nosso conhecimento de nossas mentes e defender o racionalismo . (pt)
  • 蜡块论证(英語:wax argument是一个思想實驗,勒内·笛卡尔在他的《第一哲學沉思集》中创造。他通过蜡块论证来分析对于物体来说什么性质是必要的,以及展示我们对于世界的认知,相比于对于心灵的认知来说,有多么的不确定。最终论证他的理性主义思想。 (zh)
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  • René Descartes (en)
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  • We must then grant that I could not even understand through the imagination what this piece of wax is, and that it is my mind alone which perceives it. (en)
  • Perhaps it was what I now think, viz. that this wax was not that sweetness of honey, nor that agreeable scent of flowers, nor that particular whiteness, nor that figure, nor that sound, but simply a body which a little while before appeared to me as perceptible under these forms, and which is now perceptible under others. But what, precisely, is it that I imagine when I form such conceptions? Let us attentively consider this, and, abstracting from all that does not belong to the wax, let us see what remains. Certainly nothing remains excepting a certain extended thing which is flexible and movable. (en)
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  • The wax argument or the ball of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy. He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism. (en)
  • O argumento da cera ou o exemplo da bola de cera é um experimento mental que René Descartes criou na segunda de suas Meditações sobre a Primeira Filosofia . Ele o criou para analisar quais propriedades são essenciais para os corpos, mostrar quão incerto nosso conhecimento do mundo é comparado ao nosso conhecimento de nossas mentes e defender o racionalismo . (pt)
  • 蜡块论证(英語:wax argument是一个思想實驗,勒内·笛卡尔在他的《第一哲學沉思集》中创造。他通过蜡块论证来分析对于物体来说什么性质是必要的,以及展示我们对于世界的认知,相比于对于心灵的认知来说,有多么的不确定。最终论证他的理性主义思想。 (zh)
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  • Exemplo da bola de cera (pt)
  • Wax argument (en)
  • 蜡块论证 (zh)
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