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Theism and Brute Facts

Christian philosopher Dr. Alexander Pruss has argued against “brute facts,” or facts that have no explanation. One way he did this was to say (I may be paraphrasing), “If there can be brute facts, why aren’t there more of them? There can’t be a reason why there aren’t more brute facts, as brute facts don’t have reasons.”

But couldn’t I run this argument the other way? If brute facts don’t have reasons, there seems to be no reason to expect them to occur rarely either. If brute facts are themselves inexplicable, how could there be a reason for their frequency or infrequency?

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