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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 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.
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
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 ...
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
“In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.”— Alex Haley “It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness ...
For example, in one language-game, a word might be used to stand for (or refer to) an object, but in another the same word might be used for giving orders, or for asking questions, and so on. The famous example is the meaning of the word "game". We speak of various kinds of games: board games, betting games, sports, "war games".
A selfie of American senator Chris Coons (left) and German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who have been noted to resemble each other [1]. A look-alike, or double, is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance.