family resemblance
Inherited facial traits
Family resemblance is the shared physical features among relatives—similar noses, jaw lines, or expressions that mark people as kin: She has the family resemblance around the eyes.
In philosophy, family resemblance describes how members of a category share overlapping traits without any single feature common to all, like how different games are related but have no universal defining characteristic.
Philosopher of language limits
- categoryA class of things
- fuzzy boundariesImprecise demarcations between categories
- meaningWhat something signifies
- definitionStatement of meaning
essence · necessary conditions · nominalism · semantic · categorization
Genetically transmitted features
- facial featuresElements composing a face
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- similarityState of being alike
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
phenotype · expression · mannerisms · bone structure · eye color · hair texture · gait · gestures
Wittgenstein
Philosopher of language limits
- categoryA class of things
- fuzzy boundariesImprecise demarcations between categories
- meaningWhat something signifies
definition · essence · necessary conditions · nominalism · semantic · categorization
inherited traits
Genetically transmitted features
- facial featuresElements composing a face
- likenessVisual similarity or representation
- similarityState of being alike
genetics · phenotype · expression · mannerisms · bone structure · eye color · hair texture · gait · gestures · look-alike
relatives
Those connected by blood
ancestry · heritage · genealogy · descendants · forebears · parentage · clan · dynasty · kinfolk · relations
- Family Resemblancespitting image, identical twins, look-alike, takes after, carbon copy
- conceptscategorization, typicality, abstraction, generalization, basic level
- language philosophylinguistic analysis, Wittgenstein, Austin, illocutionary force, private language
- Wittgensteinduck-rabbit, private language, showing, saying, tautology
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- storiesstory, tale, tales, myth, legend
family resemblanceidentical twins
Siblings from one zygote
exact copy · unrecognizable · carbon copy · spitting image · clone
family, unfamiliar, families, familial, resemblance, familiarize, familiarly, familiarized, familiarizing