Square tiling honeycomb hexagonal prism, octagonal prism facets, with a tetrahedron vertex figure. The alternated omnitruncated square tiling honeycomb (or omnisnub square tiling honeycomb), h(t{4,4,3}), has snub square tiling, snub cube, triangular antiprism, square antiprism, and tetrahedron cells, with an irregular vertex figure. The alternated square tiling honeycomb is a paracompact uniform honeycomb in hyperbolic 3-space, composed of cube, and square tiling facets in a cuboctahedron vertex figure. The alternated rectified square tiling honeycomb is a paracompact uniform honeycomb in hyperbolic 3-space. Square tiling honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the square tiling honeycomb, is one of 11 paracompact regular honeycombs. It
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