The tangible features are no longer present and the wax is melting. Melting replaces the flavor of honey with nothing, the scent of flowers with the absence of scent, cold and hard becomes hot and liquid, wax becomes too hot to touch let alone make noise when upon typing, the color changes, the shape changes, and the size increases. Thus, everything that Descartes thought he was writing down on the wax had changed or disappeared. In his original description, he relied solely on his senses to explain the wax. But after this failed him, Descartes doubted his senses and decided to define wax without appealing to his senses. The problem Descartes runs into with this line of thinking is that he now trusts his senses to ignore what his senses first told him. Descartes must therefore neglect to use his senses for the new description of wax. Leaving his sole knowledge of wax as his condition for change, Descartes' new description of wax states "only that it is something extended, flexible and mutable...rather, I perceive it through the mind alone” (67-68). . Descartes limits his knowledge to qualitative descriptions and only uses quantitative measurements from his