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  2. Family resemblance - Wikipedia

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    The term "Family resemblance" as feature of Wittgenstein's philosophy owes much to its translation in English. Wittgenstein, who wrote mostly in German, used the compound word Familienähnlichkeit, but as he lectured and conversed in English he used 'family likeness' (e.g. The Blue Book, p. 17,33; The Brown Book,§66).

  3. Family resemblance (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    Family resemblance refers to physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings. [1] In psychology , the similarities of personality are also observed.

  4. Similarity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The term family resemblance refers to Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea that certain concepts cannot be defined in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions which refer to essential features shared by all examples. [39] [40] Instead, the use of one concept for all its cases is justified by resemblance relations based on their

  5. Resemblance - Wikipedia

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    Resemblance may refer to: Similarity (philosophy) , or resemblance, a relation between objects that constitutes how much these objects are alike Family resemblance (anthropology) , physical similarities shared between close relatives

  6. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    In fact it is derived from Portuguese marmelada, meaning quince jam, and then expanded from quince jam to other fruit preserves. It is found in English-language sources written before Mary was even born. [72] Nasty: The term nasty was not derived from the surname of Thomas Nast as a reference to his biting, vitriolic cartoons.

  7. Genre - Wikipedia

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    This tradition has had implications for the teaching of writing in American colleges and universities. Combining rhetorical genre theory with activity theory, David Russell has proposed that standard English composition courses are ill-suited to teach the genres that students will write in other contexts across the university and beyond. [22]

  8. Family (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family".

  9. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.