PSYB57H3 : PSYB57_Chapter_8.docx
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Psyb57 chapter 8: concepts and generic knowledge. There are dictionary definitions for some words for example dog : a dog is a mammal, has four legs, barks and wags its tail. For each clause of the definition, we can easily find an exception. Even simple terms, terms denoting concepts we use easily and often, resist being defined, we can come up with what seems to be a plausible definition, but then it"s easy to find exceptions to it. Wittgenstein proposed that members of a category have a family resemblance to each other. There are common features, but the identity of those common features depends on what subgroup of the family you are considering (ex. Hair color shared by family, eye color shared by family) Just as the example with the dog and game , there may be no features that are shared by all dogs or games, just as there are no features shared by everyone in a family,
