| Irma S. Lustig - 308 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
| |