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So Im listening to the Stephen Hawking audiobook A Brief history of Time and it references a debate moment that is so funny that it made me crack up at my desk and as usual, get funny looks from my co-workers which then turned to puzzlement when I explained what I was laughing about. This will likely go over most heads but good humor usually does. Its the refutation of Bishop Berkeley suggestion that all existence is an illusion created by a deity. If someone tells me to prove something, I shall simply tell them to kick rocks 57. Refutation of Bishop Berkeley After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeleys 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 Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- I refute it thus. -Boswell: Life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:50:38 +0000

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