Definition of "bruteness" []

• The state or quality of being brute. (noun)

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• "But it is the bruteness not the fuzziness that does the philosophical work."
• "This gives us a way of understanding how nominalists can plausibly use an appeal to bruteness to respond to the One Over Many argument."
• "The emphasis being on “man”, not “boy”, with all the courseness and bruteness that “man” represents to young adolescents on the cusp of puberty."