bruteness

This gives us a way of understanding how nominalists can plausibly use an appeal to bruteness to respond to the One Over Many argument.

Platonism in Metaphysics Balaguer, Mark 2009

But it is the bruteness not the fuzziness that does the philosophical work.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

The emphasis being on “man”, not “boy”, with all the courseness and bruteness that “man” represents to young adolescents on the cusp of puberty.

Language around trans, how it works, how it doesn’t… 2007

The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.

Nature 2006

The immobility, or bruteness, of Nature is the absence of spirit.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown.

The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown.

The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

He seemed to have become in a measure aware of the bruteness of the life he had hitherto led: he must have had a glimpse of something better.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.

Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849

Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.

Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842