Sentences with phrase «brute fact»

Thus, in reality there would be only «accident and necessity,» nothing else, and one may only look upon these elements as brute facts.

Some things can be just brute fact without explanation.

Yet I must admit that my readiness to use objectivist language more freely than he does may have its roots (at least in part) in an eagerness, in questions of general epistemology, to endorse the views of those who emphasize the element of discovery in coming to know, and the authority of brute fact in the refutation of hypotheses.

It might be just a simple brute fact that matter came into existence for no good reason.

A proposition is not a particular; it transcends brute fact, just enough to grant it an air of «impartiality» (MS 320 - 1; PR 197/299 -300).

We have already noted how the positivistic understanding of history as consisting of brute facts gave way to an understanding of history centring in the profound intentions, stances, and concepts of existence held by persons in the past, as the well - springs of their outward actions.

Do we know of another language which can even associate brute fact and final salvation?

Certainly our established Western categories and ways of language and thinking provide no manifest way of so conjoining brute fact and final salvation or everlastingness and matter - of - fact entities.

A real law, like a line, is an unbroken continuum.13 Ultimate discontinuity, with this epistemological stance, is ultimate inexplicability, brute facts unrelated by laws.

Brute fact compels resort to despised philosophy.

Some things are just brute facts that have no explanation.

Past the closing sequences of Inland Empire, past David Gest's face, past a world in which Richard Florida, Terry McAuliffe, and Sasha Grey are our heroes of science, politics, and art, the brute fact of the matter is that this Levin thing has legs.

But if one brute fact is preferable to many, then theism still wins the explanatory sweepstakes.

Materialism and humanism leave many of these data mysterious, accepting them as brute facts, and Swinburne insists that this is intellectually irresponsible, since «the whole progress of science and all other intellectual enquiry demands that we postulate the smallest number of brute facts.»

Swinburne departs from the received tradition of natural theology by denying that God is a necessary being, so on his view God's existence is itself a brute fact.

They may, with enormous grudging, recognize the brute fact of Israel's existence.

Barth attempted to reconcile the brute fact of a Godless world with such terms as God's hiddenness, his incomprehensibility, and his complete otherness.

There are religions of adjustment, as we might call them, that begin not with the felicity principle but with the reality principle and admonish us to adjust our lives to the brute fact that things are not as we would like them to be.

Against Goldhagen, Littell wants to defend «senior scholars» who have spent decades pressing the case for serious research of the Holocaust «long before any young writer or eager publisher could capitalize on the brute fact that today «there's no business like Shoah business.

For that matter, it is a brute fact woven into the fabric of the universe (and not mere opinion) that even having the Jonas Brothers on your iPod is not «cool.»

In short, the Nature we know from modern science embodies and reflects immaterial properties and a depth of intelligibility... To view all these extremely complex, elegant and intelligible laws, entities, properties and relations in the evolution of the universe as «brute facts» in need of no further explanation is, in the words of the great John Paul II, an «abdication of human intelligence».»

Polkinghorne even suggested that both atheists and theists have an assumed metaphysical «brute fact» behind their basic interpretation of the cosmos: either the material world comes from an absolute intelligence or it is just there, absolute in itself.

James McClendon argues that God's activity is «empirically identifiable with» some part of cosmic or earthly events and that therefore such events provide «brute facts» with respect to the appraisal «God has done this» (1:42).

It was the return to the contemplation of brute fact; and it was based on a recoil from the inflexible rationality of medieval thought.

What else could prepare us to apprehend the Apotheosis of the World, the manifestation of brute fact as final salvation?

For the non-believer the cross is just a brute fact which he can explain according to his own philosophy of history and judge according to his lights — with sympathy, hostility, or indifference, which is simply another form of hostility.

But if Dr. Krauthammer, as a matter of brute fact, represents a public that just doesn't want to think this through, and see that there is no moral standing the twenty - week fetus possesses that is not also possessed by the twenty - hour embryo, then we must keep inviting him and our fellow citizens to turn their «moral sensibilities» into moral reasoning.

Perhaps Mill viewed this simply as a brute fact, or perhaps he would have relied on psychologists for a developmental or structural explanation for happiness as the basis of motivation.

For Holmes, the ruling majority based its claim to rule not on any principle affirming the rightness of ruling human beings with their consent and free elections; rather, the majority found its sufficient claim to rule in the brute fact that the majority, by force of numbers, could overpower the minority.

As well, it accords with the period of indetermination implicit in Whitehead's «concrescence»: the interplay between a potentially unifying proposal (the subjective aim) and the diversity of antecedent «brute fact» (PR 42/67, 224/343).

Only Whitehead, it seems, has attempted an ontological resolution to this problem — the «interplay» of concrescence ends with the concrete superjective «brute fact» of a finite «decision» (in the sense of «cutting off» (PR 43/68)-RRB-.

All those «last week» details in our gospels, as distinct from the brute facts just mentioned, are prophecy turned into history, rather than history remembered.»

«While the brute fact that of Jesus» death by crucifixion is historically certain, however, those detailed narratives in our present gospels are much more problematic.»

It's brute fact, all right.

I believe that to be simply a brute fact about the composition of capitalist societies (I may be wrong).

The significance of this change of direction is difficult to overstate; for decades Labour had accepted the inequality intrinsic to capitalism as a brute fact — something to be worked around, not worked against.

It's a biochemical «brute fact» that carbs are strings of sugars.

If I had to guess, I wouldn't say that this is because Millennials are better people than their parents; this trend is most likely attributable to the brute fact that Millennials will be forced live in the world that we are shaping now — a world hurtling towards environmental ruin.»

In the inaugural publication of the Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974, Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson wrote that there is no «brute fact» that «there could exist a subset of decision makers in the market capable of doing better than the averages on a repeatable, sustainable basis.»

It is brute fact.