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>brute facts

>> No.17796014
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>facts

>> No.17796017

>>17795994
>studies have shown
>we now know

>> No.17796030

the concept of "brute facts" is literally philosophers giving up. if someone mentions "brute facts" you just know he's a depressed loser

>> No.17797102

>>17796030
i don't think an infinite regress of contingent facts is any more intuitive

>> No.17797128

>>17795994
Even if there were brute facts with no explanation that doesn't mean we couldn't make up a fake reason for things being that way and trick ourselves into believing it.

>> No.17797140

Wats a brute fact?

>> No.17797184

>>17797140
a fact with no explanation

>> No.17797322

>>17797184
give me an example

>> No.17797329

>>17797322
Flongo

>> No.17797334

>>17796017
>Experts concluded

>> No.17797341

>>17797329
what's that

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>new evidence suggesting

>> No.17797350

>>17797341
It's a brute fact. If you don't like it, bury your head in the sand.

>> No.17797367

>>17797350
so a brute fact is any set of characters

>> No.17797369

>>17795994
>>17796014
These soijacks get more revolting by the day

>> No.17797386

>>17797369
one day all the basedjacks are going to become real and a limitless horde of body-horror monstrosities will overrun human civilization, killing us as retribution for making them so hideous.

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>hate facts

>> No.17797433 [DELETED] 

>>17797184
the existence of God

>> No.17797435

>>17797367
No.

>> No.17797451

>>17797322
the existence of God

>> No.17797453

>>17797433
The non-existence of God

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>> No.17797531

>>17797435
but you said flongo was a brute fact and flongo is just a random set of characters

>> No.17797901

>>17795994
>>17796030
seething rationalists. get fucked
>>17797128
thats what weve been doing from the start. explaining the state of things with the state of things. at some point we will be honest enough to say describing instead of explaining

>> No.17797929

>>17797901
you will never be a woman

>> No.17797948

>>17797531
Flongo is a very profound and indisputable truth. The fact that you dismiss it as random characters reveals the deficient mind of an atheist.