 | Alex Callinicos - History - 1995 - 266 pages
...Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his...doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
 | Robert Kirk - Realism - 1999 - 206 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 arc satisfied his doctrine is not true. it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forgei the alacrity... | |
 | Antony Easthope - Art - 1999 - 292 pages
...stood talking for some time about 'Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal'. Johnson was clearly appalled at this threat to empirical reality. Boswell continues: I observed, that... | |
 | George Parkin Grant, Henry Roper - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 552 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...striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone til he rebounded from it -"I refute it thus.'" (New York: Everyman Edition, Knopf, 1992), 295-6. 4... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - Electronic books - 2001 - 184 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 1 observed, that though we are satisfied that his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute... | |
 | James Ishmael Ford - Buddhism - 2002 - 132 pages
...of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though...doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
 | Prue Kerr, Geoffrey Colin Harcourt - Business & Economics - 2002 - 528 pages
...Materialists. (Materialists, I mean in the sense of Dr. Johnson's refutation of Berkeley's idealism — "striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, / refute it thus." There will be some at least of my Materialists who are worthy followers of Dr. Johnson.)... | |
 | N. Milkov - Philosophy - 2003 - 324 pages
...later published in On Certainty. 66 Here it is as if Moore follows Samuel Johnson from this passage: 'Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force...against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "1 refute it [Berkeley's thesis that matter doesn't exist] thus"' (Boswell 1791, i, p. 471). '[A] thing... | |
 | James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson - Philosophy - 2003 - 356 pages
...matter. Describing the moment, James Boswell writes, "I observed, that though we are satisfied that his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 1086 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...doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against... | |
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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. 
