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brute facts

brute facts is the plural of brute fact.

Meaning of brute fact

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...

Questions about brute facts

What is brute facts the plural of?
Brute facts is the plural of brute fact.

Words near brute facts in the dictionary

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

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