For example, while dreaming the body believes it senses the smell of a cake baking. Although it is not physically perceived in the world, the sensation becomes a though and makes the mind believe it is being perceived. "Therefore it is not dependent upon any of those things that I stimulate in my imagination...
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"Therefore it is not dependent upon any of those things that I stimulate in my imagination." (p20; 28). In relation to perceiving an object, how does one go about knowing the true element or essence of something? How does someone know an object with certainty and possess no doubt of that object? Descartes tries to explore this idea of knowing something by using the five senses in examining a piece of wax...
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