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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
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] |