Thread: Can you trust what you hear?: 'Opening Up' and other Guitar Lore
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Old 07-04-2009, 04:19 PM
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And then you have Samuel Johnson coming along and kicking that rock, saying "I refute it thus".
He was "refuting" Berkeley. And while it is a famous incident, it fails as a refutation. Berkeley's theory can completely account for the kicking of a rock.
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