In contemporary philosophy, a brute fact is a fact that cannot be explained in terms of a deeper, more "fundamental" fact. There are two main ways to explain...

In philosophy, the brute fact approach proposes that some facts cannot be explained in terms of a deeper, more "fundamental" fact. It is in opposition...

depends on a particular interpretation of the underlying facts and ruling of the court. Brute fact Common misconceptions Consensus reality Counterfactual...

does not only refer to a brute fact, or the factuality of a concrete historical situation, e.g. "born in the '80s." Facticity is something that already...

In computer science, brute-force search or exhaustive search, also known as generate and test, is a very general problem-solving technique and algorithmic...

set of facts xyz ... may be brute relative to a fact A which itself is one of a set of facts ABC ... which is brute relative to some further fact W. Thus...

wrong, even if every thinking person believes otherwise (the idea of brute fact about morality). The ethical realist might suggest that humans were created...

Following Newton, it became customary to accept action at a distance as brute fact, and to overlook the philosophical problems involved in so doing. Members...

the model to experimental data is an ab initio approach. Abstraction Brute fact Law of thought Present Clean room implementation Primitive notion First...

December 1972 (released nationally in February 1973), and Frute Brute in 1974. Frute Brute was discontinued by 1982, after an eight-year run. It was replaced...

thought and so assist in discrediting completely the world of reality". Brute fact Common knowledge Common misconception Consensus theory of truth Conventional...

possibility that reality has no fundamental explanation and should be seen as a brute fact. Adherents of the principle of sufficient reason reject this, holding...

lesser concern for the ultimate principles underlying moral conduct. Brute fact Transcendental Lewis, David (1983). "Extrinsic Properties". Philosophical...

without organs Boltzmann brain Boredom Brahman Brahmanda Brain in a vat Brute fact Cambridge change Camp Cartesian other Cartesian Self Categorical imperative...

John Searle, mental facts may be intentional or nonintentional, depending on whether or not they are directed at something. Brute fact is and ought problem...

idea of death can be funny, the suggestion of it can be funny, but the brute fact of it never can be." He added the movie "becomes a bloody assault on the...

insufficient reason Occum's razor Dependent origination Münchhausen trilemma Brute fact Necessity and sufficiency See Schulze, Logik, §19, and Krug, Logik, §20...

whole. Characteristics may derive from some principle or be proposed as brute fact. A principled account of the composition relationship will appeal to a...

Representation, mediation. C. S. Peirce's 3 universes of experience Ideas. Brute fact. Habit (habit-taking). C. S. Peirce's 3 orders of philosophy Phenomenology...

logically possible worlds. Therefore, Swinburne used the term "ultimate brute fact" for the existence of God. Ananke Modal logic Platonism A priori and a...

Similarly to the way in which gravity appears to be an inexplicable brute fact of nature, the case of qualia may be one in which we are either lacking...

in order to ascertain facts about its object. Peirce also usually held that an index does not have to be an actual individual fact or thing, but can be...

less fine-tuned than often claimed, or that accepting fine tuning as a brute fact is less astonishing than the idea of an intelligent creator. Furthermore...

Anti-naturalistic Fallacy: Evolutionary Moral Psychology and the Insistence of Brute Facts". Evolutionary Psychology. 4: 33–48. doi:10.1177/147470490600400102....

essence behind the apparition[clarification needed]. It is what it is, a brute fact, and what one must now examine is the conditions that are necessary for...

occur in succession through time, and it is the action itself that is the brute fact, not an underlying value scale. It is pointless to judge the actions of...

Elizabeth Anscombe in "On Brute Facts", Searle distinguishes between brute facts, like the height of a mountain, and institutional facts, like the score of a...

still on board. Some papers called him the "Coward of the Titanic " or "J. Brute Ismay", and suggested that the White Star flag be changed to a yellow liver...

proportion of truth in the hypothesis. Every inquiry, whether into ideas, brute facts, or norms and laws, arises from surprising observations in one or more...

which the sign represents and which can be anything thinkable—quality, brute fact, or law—and even fictional (Prince Hamlet), and (3) the interpretant (or...