A description of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, by James Boswell:

“I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature.” - Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791).

📷 lauranolte - http://blog.lauranolte.com/2011/04/londons-cat-statues.html

#Cats #DrJohnson #Boswell #LifeofJohnson

"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 alarge stone, till he rebounded from it, ‘I refute it THUS.’" - #DrJohnson's attempted refutation of #Berkeley as recorded by Boswell.

The reason this doesn't work as an argument is outlined in this post, with bonus #JonathanSwift and #EdmundBurke
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/03/12/berkeleys-immaterialism/
#IrishPhilosophy