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  1. 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] .

  2. Family Resemblances: Directed by Cédric Klapisch. With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Agnès Jaoui. An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant.

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  3. Jul 6, 2020 · Ludwig Wittgenstein famously argued that some concepts apply by virtue of a ‘family resemblance’, rather than a set of necessary and sufficient properties. A family resemblance concept has an….

  4. Jun 5, 2024 · The meaning of FAMILY RESEMBLANCE is a similarity in the way people look because they are related. How to use family resemblance in a sentence.

  5. There will be some family features that occur often across the whole family (e.g., tall, red hair, blue eyes, small nose), but some family members will have more of them than others. The prototype view has much intuitive appeal and accounts for many of the empirical findings.

  6. 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.

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  8. Jul 6, 2010 · 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.).

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