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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 is also shaped by environmental factors, temperature, light, nutrition, exposure to drugs, the time that different family members spend in shared and non-shared environments, are examples of factors found to influence phenotype.

  4. Descriptivist theory of names - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of language, the descriptivist theory of proper names (also descriptivist theory of reference) [1] is the view that the meaning or semantic content of a proper name is identical to the descriptions associated with it by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions.

  5. 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

  6. 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; Family resemblance, a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein

  7. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    Example: Abdul is happy. Jeanne is a person. I am she. Subject + Verb (transitive) + Indirect Object + Direct Object Example: She made me a pie. This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a ...

  8. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.

  9. Mediated reference theory - Wikipedia

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    A mediated reference theory [1] (also indirect reference theory) [2] is any semantic theory that posits that words refer to something in the external world, but insists that there is more to the meaning of a name than simply the object to which it refers.