Brutely

adv

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Adverb
  1. 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."

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brutishly

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"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."

Etymology

From brute + -ly.

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