Descartes Meditation Two Analysis

Perceiving the World: Descartes’ Opinion
In Meditation Two, Descartes claims that one does not use senses or imagination to believe or label perceived objects. One uses knowledge and reasoning to determine what objects are and if they exist. Because one’s senses constantly change according to the state of objects, one cannot determine what something is or whether it could be real without the mind’s intellect. Descartes uses a piece of wax as an analogy that represents all objects one perceives. He explains because the wax can change in terms of one’s senses, one’s senses cannot truly know what the wax is. It can change from hard to soft, square to round, and so on. Since one’s imagination cannot conceive of all the possible forms the wax can