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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] .
Jul 6, 2020 · ‘Family resemblance’ is one of the few technical ideas in philosophy that has successfully crossed over into other disciplines, such as art theory, literary studies, psychology, law, and...
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.
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
1h 50m. IMDb RATING. 7.4 /10. 5.5K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Comedy Drama. An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce. Director. Cédric Klapisch. Writers. Agnès Jaoui.
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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
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.