 | Jin Y. Park - 2006 - 320 pages
...(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1934), 471: "I observed that, though we are satisfied his [Berkeley's] doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it....with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'" 3. This is one... | |
 | Mark Blackwell - 2007 - 378 pages
...Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter." "I observed," Boswell writes, "that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thtui. ' "2 Yet Boswell's... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 pages
...response to Berkeley nevertheless affords an illuminating point of comparison. When Boswell observes, "that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. ... Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded... | |
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After we came out of the church, we stood 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 satisfied his... 
