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In Descartes' Wax Example, he describes a wax candle heating up and changing all of the properties we can perceive, yet we still perceive it to be wax, which he explains is a result of our intellectual sense of substance. Locke expands on this with his idea of substratum, the substance of a thing that is free of characteristics. However, he believes the substratum is imperceptible because it cannot be sensed in a physical way and rejects Decartes notion of the intellectual sense.
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What is the comparison between Rene Descartes' and John Locke's theory of substance?
Descartes had a dualist substance theory and believed that there were two substances, the mind and the body. Locke also believed that there were spiritual substances and physical substances, but his theory of substance relied on the substratum, a characterless thing that contains the characteristics we observe. Since we cannot observe substance, Locke believed we could not know anything about it.
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