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Descartes (1986), in his Sixth Meditation, was very deeply concerned with the question of existence and the related question of knowledge. He felt that there was a difference between the imagination and pure intellect or conception. He used the example of a piece of wax to illustrate how man moves from the knowledge of a set of particulars to the knowledge of a whole. This I used to illustrate the difference between mind and body.

The discussion of wax emphasizes the fact that the substance known as "wax" is a composite of many things. Wax can convey the sweetness of the honey that it contains in the beehive. It can give off some smell of the flowers from which the wax was made. Man can also, simply by looking at wax, identify its color and its size. By touching wax, he can learn its contours. All of these bits of knowledge do not necessarily add up to a full knowledge of wax itself (Descartes, 1986).

Descartes (1986) says that when one puts wax in fire, its superficia

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