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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
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).
Of special interest to the concept of similarity is the position known as resemblance nominalism, which treats resemblance between objects as a fundamental fact. [ 22 ] [ 16 ] So on this view, two objects have a feature in common because they resemble each other, not the other way round, as is commonly held. [ 23 ]
Proponents of resemblance nominalism believe that 'cat' applies to both cats because Fluffy and Kitzler resemble an exemplar cat closely enough to be classed together with it as members of its kind, or that they differ from each other (and other cats) quite less than they differ from other things, and this warrants classing them together. [23]
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.
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.
Similarity (philosophy) – Relation of resemblance between objects; Statistical distance – Distance between two statistical objects; String metric – Metric that measures the distance between two strings of text; Similarity search – Searching for similar items in a data set; tf–idf – Estimate of the importance of a word in a document
Hypocatastasis is a figure of speech that declares or implies a resemblance, representation or comparison. It differs from a metaphor, because in a metaphor the two nouns are both named and given; while, in hypocatastasis, only one is named and the other is implied, or as it were, is put down underneath out of sight. Hence hypocatastasis is an ...