PSYC 2650 Chapter 8: PSYCH 2650 CHAPTER 8 NOTES

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

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The idea is hat you need concepts in order to have knowledge and you need knowledge in order to function. hypothesis: understanding a concept is analogous to knowing a dictionary de nition. It seems tat for each clause of the de nition we can nd an exception for almost any concept. thus, it is not fully plausible. Wittgenstein proposed that members of a category have a family family resemblance to each other. That there a features that are common in the family and if we consider members two or three at a time we can nd some of the shared attributes. Thus, there are common features but the identity of those common features depends on what subgroup of the family you"re considering. We can identify characteristic features for each category - features that all or most category members may have. family resemblance is a matter of degree - not all or none!