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Old 07-04-2009, 04:23 PM
Jeff M Jeff M is offline
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Originally Posted by Howard Klepper View Post
He was "refuting" Berkeley. And while it is a famous incident, it fails as a refutation.
Yes.
And the good Bishop's claim of "the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal."

Seems like a pretty good refutation to me. How else to account for the broken toe?
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