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I need help with disproving an argument below and showing its weak points Please can you help me attempt to disprove the argument provided below
I need help with disproving an argument below and showing its weak points
Please can you help me attempt to disprove the argument provided below (or at least show its weak points), referringto Descartes' discussion of the wax in his Meditation II.
- Can you help me read carefully all parts of the argument (Premise 1, Premise 2, Premise 3, Premise 4, and the Conclusion) and try to find some claims within his argument that conflict with Descartes analysisof the solid/melted wax( or claims that are disputable or doubtful, according Descartes view about the wax).
- Can you help me Indicate these claims and explain why you think these points are flawed or false.
- Can you also look for any place of faulty logic (if there is any), in order to show that the Conclusion 5 does not follow.
*Can you help me keep in mind that I am working with a single argument that consists of four premises and a conclusion and not with five different arguments.
These are the Arguments:
Premise 1) All knowledge you have comes to you via sense perception
Premise 2) When you perceive a freshly made solid piece of bee-wax (call it SBW for Solid Bee Wax) with your 5 senses, this wax still has some smell of flowers, some taste of honey, gives you a sound when knocked with a fingernail, feels hard to your touch, and it looks like a cube to your eyes
Premise 3) When you bring the SBW to the fireplace and put it right next to the flames, the SBW melts and becomes liquid (call it MBW for Melted Bee Wax). In this process the smell of flowers evaporates from the MBW and alters (it may be intensified or diminished, but it does not smell the same anymore), the former taste of honey is not detectable anymore for it is hot, it does not give you the same sound when knocked with a fingernail, it becomes soft to your touch, and it does not look like a cube to your eyes
Premise 4) Every sense perception you have had about the SBW is different from the sense-perceptions you have about the MBW
Conclusion 5) The Solid Bee Wax and the Melted Bee Wax is not the same wax; they are two entirely different things (as the set of perceptions from the SBW is different fromthe set of perception of the MBW)
(Please read the final part of the Meditation II
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