brute fact

brute fact
An inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.

The rationalist, Kantian definition of truth, therefore, fails. At the bottom of every fact there is an act of reason, and thus no realist notion of truth serves; at the bottom of every rational necessity there is a choice, the act of invention, and so no critical definition of truth serves² ⁹ The forms and categories of thought themselves need verification in an experience which does not apply them so much as make them³ ⁰ That the very conditions of intelligibility change and develope<! [sic] is clear, according to LR, from the history of science³¹ Further, a list of categories given once and for all is nothing but itself a brute fact, an irrational surd, if it cannot itself be explained³²


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