Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb and order-4 hexagonal tiling honeycomb all which have octahedral vertex figures: This honeycomb is a part of a sequence of polychora and honeycombs with dodecahedral cells: The rectified order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has alternating octahedron and icosidodecahedron cells, with a cube vertex figure. There are four rectified compact regular honeycombs: The truncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has octahedron and truncated dodecahedron cells, with a cube vertex figure. It can be seen as analogous to the 2D hyperbolic truncated order-4 pentagonal tiling, t{5,4} with truncated pentagon and square faces: The bitruncated order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb, or bitruncated order-5 cubic honeycomb, , has
Wax argument Wax argument The wax argument or the ball of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created within his "Meditations on First Philosophy". He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism. Descartes first considers all the sensible properties of a ball of wax such as its shape, texture, size, color, and smell. He then points out that all these properties change as the wax is moved closer to a fire. The only properties that necessarily