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  2. Family resemblance (German: Familienähnlichkeit) is a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with the best known exposition given in his posthumously published book Philosophical Investigations (1953). [1] .

  3. Family Resemblances (French: Un air de famille) is a 1996 French comedy film. It was directed by Cédric Klapisch, and written by Klapisch, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri. The film stars Bacri, Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Wladimir Yordanoff, Claire Maurier and Zinedine Soualem.

  4. This chapter explores Wittgenstein's characterization of the concepts of “family resemblance”; for the various resemblances between members of a family: build, features, color of eyes, gait, temperament, etc., overlap and crisscross in the same way.

  5. Oct 1, 1975 · Family resemblances are related to process models in two ways: (a) Any account of the processes by which humans convert stimulus attributes into mental or behavioral prototypes (such as an attri- bute tag model) should be able to account for the family resemblance at- tribute structure of categories outlined by the present research, and (b ...

    • Eleanor Rosch, Carolyn B Mervis
    • 1975
  6. Jul 6, 2010 · Summary. One of Wittgenstein's best-known and most important philosophical contributions in the Philosophical Investigations is his account of the ‘family resemblance’ ( Familienähnlichkeit) character of general concepts ( PI 65ff.).

    • Michael Forster
    • 2010
  7. Family resemblance refers to physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings. In psychology, the similarities of personality are also observed.

  8. Family resemblance can be due to either genes or environment, or some combination of both. Adoption designs provide a way to disentangle these genetic and environmental sources of familial resemblance.