brutely

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Etymology

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From brute +‎ -ly.

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brutely (comparative more brutely, superlative most brutely)

  1. In a rude or violent manner.
    Synonym: brutishly
    • 2002, William P. Alston, Realism and antirealism[1]:
      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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