 | Irma S. Lustig - 308 pages
...but often the context of his words. One line ("I refute it thus") can summon up a whole scene*"After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus" (1: 471). Johnson's... | |
 | Alex Callinicos - 1995 - 266 pages
...in much the same way as Dr Johnson famously dealt with Berkeley's idealism. Boswell tells the story: After we came out of the church, we stood talking...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... | |
 | Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence - 1996 - 264 pages
...Into the blind cave of eternal night. (V.iii) 2L On 6 August 1763, Boswell reports of Dr. Johnson. "[W]e stood talking for some time together of Bishop...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.' " 22. Gammon—the... | |
 | Michael F. Hoyt - 1998 - 408 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...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus\' " (Boswell, 1791/1980,... | |
 | Robert Kirk - 1999 - 206 pages
...real entities. So there seems no conflict between instrumentalism and the evidence of the senses. 5 '...we stood talking for some time together of Bishop...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... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 pages
...Johnson answering Boswell on the truth of Bishop Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of matter. 'I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus" ' (Life, 1, 471).... | |
 | George Parkin Grant, Henry Roper - 2000 - 552 pages
...common-sense realism about the existence of external objects on 6 August 1763, as recorded by Boswell: '... We stood talking for some time together of Bishop...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone til he rebounded from it -"I refute it thus.'" (New York: Everyman... | |
 | Michael F. Hoyt - 2001 - 328 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...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus\~ (Boswell, 1791/1980,... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - 2001 - 184 pages
...liability, is the first topic discussed in the next chapter. Chapter 6 Objections from common sense {34^49) After we came out of the church, we stood talking...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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1996 - 954 pages
...lexicographer. The incident to which Russell refers is recorded in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson: "After we came out of the church, we stood talking...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it — 'I refute it thus'" (117). 30: 13... | |
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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 nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine... 
