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To: Menehune56
The requested document does not exist on this server.

Yeah, for some reason the link won't post.

https://www.samueljohnson.com/refutati.html#57

Refutation of Bishop Berkeley

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page

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 is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which [Dr. Sam] Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."

— James Boswell, 1791.

59 posted on 06/19/2019 11:34:00 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher

My comment in Philosophy 101 back in the day regarding Zeno’s paradox arrow - anyone who actually believes it would thus be willing to stand 20 yards away and let me shoot an arrow at them.


75 posted on 06/19/2019 12:45:27 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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