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brute fact

brute fact noun: an inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.

Noun

brute fact (plural brute facts)

  1. An inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.
    • The rationalist, Kantian definition of truth, therefore, fails. At the bottom of every fact there is an act of reason, and thus no realist notion of truth serves; at the bottom of every rational necessity there is a choice, the act of invention, and so no critical definition of truth serves.³ ² ⁹...1985: Guy Mansini, OSB, Analecta Gregoriana — “What is a Dogma?”: The Meaning and Truth of Dogma in Edouard le Roy and His Scholastic Opponents, page 166 (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università...
    • Architecture has graver ends; capable of sublimity, it touches the most brutal instincts through its objectivity; it appeals to the highest of the faculties, through its very abstraction. Architectural abstraction has the distinctive and magnificent quality that, while being rooted in brute fact...2008: Charles-Édouard “Le Corbusier” Jeanneret-Gris [aut.] and John Goodman [tr.], Toward an Architecture, pages 101–102 (Frances Lincoln Publishers; →ISBN)

Forms of brute fact

pluralbrute facts
alternative formbrute-fact

Questions about brute fact

What does brute fact mean?
Brute fact means an inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.
What part of speech is brute fact?
Brute fact is a noun.
What is the plural of brute fact?
The plural of brute fact is brute facts.

Words near brute fact in the dictionary

  1. brutally
  2. brutalness
  3. Brutasha
  4. brute
  5. brute de forge
  6. brute fact
  7. brute facts
  8. brute for punishment
  9. brute force
  10. brute forced
  11. brute forces

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