Sentence examples for wax impression from inspiring English sources
In a 1903 Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder," the detective discovers that a criminal has made a wax impression of a solicitor's fingerprint and then framed him by stamping the forged fingerprint at an apparent murder scene.
In fact, he explicitly rejects the wax impression metaphor that is central to the traditional Empiricist understanding of perception and imagery (and from which, of course, the very notion of a "sense impression" derives) (Paivio, 1977).
Clearly the word alludes to the wax impression model of perception and memory that we find in Plato and Aristotle, and although Hume, no doubt, does not intend it to be understood too literally, the fact that he thinks it an appropriate and innocuous metaphor remains telling.
He also made wax impressions of the walls of the Room of Beauties removing paint in the process and commissioned plaster casts of its bas-reliefs.
Sadly, as Aldersey-Williams points out, we've lost touch with some of the scientific legacy afforded by these investigations, including the intricate wax impressions and drawings of our glandular systems.
Aristotle describes phantasmata as being analogous to paintings or wax impressions (De Memoria 450a-b), and as "a residue of the actual [sense] impression" (De Insomniis 461b; cf. Rhetorica 137a 28) or "a movement resulting from an actual exercise of a power of sense" (De Anima 429a 1–3).
In this changing context the analogy of the wax-impression is reinterpreted.
He presented more than 15 photos of the marks to the jury, along with plaster and wax dental impressions of Chaney's teeth, and said he'd spent 20 hours comparing the impressions and the marks.
As Aristotle describes the process, the sense organ receives "the form of sensible objects without the matter, just as the wax receives the impression of the signet-ring without the iron or the gold".
After 2 weeks of adaptation period, pharyngeal portion was shaped using high-viscosity impression wax during production of oral pressure sounds which cause velopharyngeal function.
