Before revision: The ball of wax example or the wax argument is a thought experiment by René Descartes, within the Meditations on First Philosophy, created in order to analyse 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.Graziano, Richard G. "Descartes’ wax argument for the sum res cogitans".Newman, Lex, "Descartes' Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
After revision: The ball of wax example or the wax argument or the ball of wax example is a thought experiment by René Descartes, within the Meditations on First Philosophy, created in order to analyse 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.Graziano, Richard G. "Descartes’ wax argument for the sum res cogitans".Newman, Lex, "Descartes' Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)