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Year: 2005

Pages: 449-466

Series: Synthese

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Ludwig Fahrbach, "Understanding brute facts", Synthese 145 (3), 2005, pp. 449-466.

Understanding brute facts

Ludwig Fahrbach

pp. 449-466

in: Synthese 145 (3), 2005.

Abstract

Brute facts are facts that have no explanation. If we come to know that a fact is brute, we obviously don’t get an explanation of that fact. Nevertheless, we do make some sort of epistemic gain. In this essay, I give an account of that epistemic gain, and suggest that the idea of brute facts allows us to distinguish between the notion of explanation and the notion of understanding.

Publication details

Year: 2005

Pages: 449-466

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Ludwig Fahrbach, "Understanding brute facts", Synthese 145 (3), 2005, pp. 449-466.