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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).
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.
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
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
Language-games and Family Resemblance A description of language-games in the entry for Ludwig Wittgenstein in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Logico-linguistic modeling . This is an application of the language-game concept in the area of information systems and knowledge-based system design.
The category is “family resemblance,” and today, it’s two unlikely celebrities bearing such similarities. Sabrina Carpenter and Christina Aguilera—who share no bloodline relation, might I ...
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.
In his later philosophy, Wittgenstein develops the concept of a "language-game" and, rather than his prior picture theory of meaning, advocates a theory of meaning as use. It also contains the private language argument and the notion of family resemblance .