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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

brutely en · ADV

Etymology

From brute + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a rude or violent manner.
    • McDowell's paradigm for such a coercive relationship of world to mind is any account in which the world's impact upon us is brutely causal and that brute causal relationship is taken to have epistemic significance. 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism:

Forms

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most brutely Degree=Sup lexicographic
more brutely Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

brutishly

Translations (2)

es brutamente (Translations) · pl bezrozumnie (Translations)