 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence noi) true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shallforget the alacrity with which Johnson answered,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is...refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which John- [2220 son answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded... | |
 | Herbert Wildon Carr - Monadology - 1922 - 368 pages
...in the famous story of Dr. Johnson claiming to have refuted Berkeley's theory by kicking a stone, " that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it." The reason is that our first reflexion on experience, the ordinary reflexion which leads to scientific... | |
 | Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad - Philosophy - 1926 - 156 pages
...Johnson : Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that,...foot with mighty force against a large stone till it rebounded from it, ' I refute it thus ! ' " You see you are in good company. VI THAT NOTHING EVER... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...anything outside his mind is really there. The Johnsonian incident took place at Harwich where he struck "his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it," while saying to Boswell of Berkeley's idealism, "I refute it thus." The list of Johnson-Wordsworth... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisf1ed his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity... | |
 | Peter Walmsley - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 236 pages
...Pembroke, Leibniz and Elizabeth Montagu, as well as Clarke and Whiston.14 Boswell too felt tongue-tied: 'though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it'.15 Hume was moved to make this analysis of his feelings on reading Berkeley's work: " GS Rousseau... | |
 | Colin Brown, Steve Wilkens, Alan G. Padgett - Christianity - 1990 - 456 pages
...himself discussing with Dr. Johnson the Bishop Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal." Boswell recalls how I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 212 pages
...probably says as much about us, our fears, and our longings, as it says about him, perhaps more. In first "striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it" and then remarking, "I refute it thus,"5 he thrust his large, awkward body and his forcefully precise... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...Life of Johnion 26 April 1779 24 [In refutation of the idealism of Bishop Berkeley] 'Johnson struck his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, saying, "I refute it thus".' In Boswell Lift- of Johnion 6 August 1763 25 People have nowadays got... | |
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Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus. 
