brutely

adv

brutely

adv

Etymology From brute + -ly.

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:

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