Descartes draws several conclusions from his wax example:

• What I know about wax is not what is what the senses tell me. (P 231b)
• Wax (and any other material body) is essentially just an extended thing. (P 231b)
• I know the wax not through sense and imagination but by my mind. (P 232a)
• I don't know material bodies as well as I thought I did. (P 224b)
• I know my mind better than I know material things. (P 232bf)