 | James Ishmael Ford - 2002 - 132 páginas
...instance, James Boswell in Life of Johnson recounts: 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 everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed that though we are satisfied his doctrine is... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - 1996 - 954 páginas
...James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson: "After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...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... | |
 | James A. Arieti, Patrick A. Wilson - 2003 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
 | David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer - 2003 - 964 páginas
...best Libertarian SF novel. When Dr. Samuel Johnson felt himself getting tied up in an argument over Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that everything in the universe is merely ideal, he kicked a large stone and answered, "/ refute it thus... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1086 páginas
...vol. I, p. 471. On 6 August 1763 Boswell wrote: 'After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...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... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 páginas
...ghost with the material density of certainty: After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'ls This anecdote... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 páginas
...protection of your CREATOR and REDEEMER." [164] After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it,—"I refute it thus." This was a stout... | |
 | Francis Wheen - 2005 - 340 páginas
...famous passage from James Boswell's Life of Johnson: "After we came out of church we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious...sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter and that everything in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is... | |
 | Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 páginas
...diverted into politics, but Johnson based his own criticisms on the self-evidence of material reality ("I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, til he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus.'") and an intuition... | |
 | James A. Arieti - 2005 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
