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Single Idea 3176

[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 4. Structure of Concepts / h. Family resemblance ]

Full Idea

Anything bears a family resemblance to a game, but obviously not anything counts as one.

Gist of Idea

Anything bears a family resemblance to a game, but obviously not anything counts as one

Source

Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 4.3)

Book Ref

Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.127

The 5 ideas with the same theme [concepts cover groups which loosely resemble]:

4141 Various games have a 'family resemblance', as their similarities overlap and criss-cross [Wittgenstein]
3176 Anything bears a family resemblance to a game, but obviously not anything counts as one [Rey]
21600 'Blue' is not a family resemblance, because all the blues resemble in some respect [Williamson]
22336 We might say that the family resemblance is just a consequence of meaning-as-use [Glock]
22335 The variety of uses of 'game' may be that it has several meanings, and isn't a single concept [Glock]