The tangible features are no longer present and the wax melts. Melting replaces the taste of honey with nothing, the scent of flowers without scent, the cold and hard become hot and liquid, the wax becomes too hot to touch let alone make a noise when struck, the color changes, the shape changes and size increases. Therefore, everything that Descartes thought he noticed on the wax had changed or disappeared. In his original description, he relied only on his senses to explain the wax. But after this fails him, Descartes questions his senses and decides to define wax without the use of his senses. The problem Descartes runs into with this line of thinking is that he now trusts his senses to ignore what his senses told him the first time. Therefore, Descartes must neglect to use his senses for the new description of wax. Letting his only knowledge of wax be his condition for change, Descartes' new description of wax states "only that it is something extended, flexible, and changing...rather, I perceive it only through the mind" (67-68 ). Descartes limits his knowledge to qualitative descriptions and uses only quantitative measures from his