[DOC] [TLE] The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page: Refutation of Bishop Berkely [PAR] Refutation of Bishop Berkeley. The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page ... together 
of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, ... 
with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus. [DOC] [TLE] When Dr Johnson kicked the stone | Ask a Philosopher [PAR] Oct 13, 2015 ... ... force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, 'I refute it thus. ... So 
anything imperceptible does not exist, including, in particular, ... Dr. Johnson 
thought he was refuting Berkeley by kicking the stone and showing it to be 
material. ... There is a lot to be said for esse est percipi: most of the qualities we... [DOC] [TLE] I refute Berkeley thus [PAR] As such, it would not matter whether there was a tympanic membrane ... George 
Berkeley was born near Kilkenny, Ireland, and, although an ... not make a sound, 
the tree does not even exist! ... The great Dr. Samuel Johnson dismissed 
Berkeley's ideas with his famous "I refute Berkeley thus" and then he kicked a 
rock. [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson - Wikipedia [PAR] Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September]  13 December 1784), 
often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer ... He did not cry and, with 
doubts surrounding the newborn's health, his aunt exclaimed "that ...... powerfully 
stomped a nearby stone and proclaimed of Berkeley's theory, "I refute it thus!". [DOC] [TLE] George Berkeley - Wikiquote [PAR] ... whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of a theory he 
called ... Said by Philonous (Berkeley) to Hylas in the opening of dialog 1 with ... 
as well those degrees of heat that are not painful, as those that are, can exist in a 
... to refute, Dr. Johnson kicked out at a nearby stone, exclaiming "I refute it thus!". [DOC] [TLE] Thus I refute Johnson | The Skeptical Zone [PAR] Mar 24, 2014 ... He is referring, of course, to Johnson's famous criticism of Berkeley's idealism as 
... of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, 
... mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, I refute it thus. ... 
Thus I refute Johnson, though I'm sure I'm not the first to do so. [DOC] [TLE] Dr Johnson's Sore Toe: Touch, Naturalism and Kingdom Hearts ... [PAR] Sep 9, 2016 ... The Principles made quite a splash, though were not taken very seriously. Some 
years later, when asked his opinion on Berkeley's theory, Samuel ... to have 
declaimed 'I refute it thus' and kicked a large stone at the side of the path. ... 
Idealism holds that value and worth depend for their existence on human... [DOC] [TLE] Did Samuel Johnson REFUTE Berkeley - Groups - Able2Know [PAR] Of course, if Johnson misunderstood Berkeley, then he could not have refuted 
Berkeley. ... And, of course, Johnson presumably held that by kicking the stone 
he was ... Berkeley's idea is that the material world only exists in the mind, ... 
Berkeley said experience is all there is and you only assume there is... [DOC] [TLE] Squashed Philosophers - Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge [PAR] Dr Johnson famously denied Berkeley by kicking a stone and saying 'Sir, I refute 
it thus!', and the theory is neatly summed up in two limericks by the theologian 
Ronald ... But no sooner do we follow the light of a superior principle, to reason, 
... The table I write on I say exists, that is, I see and feel it; and if I were out of my... [DOC] [TLE] George Berkeley in Encyclopedia of Britain by Bamber Gascoigne [PAR] (also known as Bishop Berkeley, 16851753) Anglo-Irish philosopher, the 
leading exponent of empiricism (the theory that things exist only through being ... '
Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter'.

Question: Of Berkeley's theory of the non-existence of this, Dr. Johnson kicked a stone & said, "I refute it thus"
Answer: Matter