Wittgenstein's Anti-Essentialism: Family Resemblance
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A few clips of John
A few clips of John Searle and Bryan Magee discussing one of Wittgenstein's most important notions, that of family resemblance, which in many ways runs against the entire philosophical tradition. For although the search for the essence of concepts like Truth, Justice, Knowledge, Goodness, and Beauty is the very paradigm of conceptual or philosophical analysis (as Socrates famously showed us), Wittgenstein suggested that abstract terms do not have (or do not need to have) such underlying essences which all the particular instances share in common. We understand the meaning of such terms enough to be able to use them, even if we cannot spell out their precise conditions. Indeed, things of the same kind need not share any underlying universal or common nature, but only a variety of overlapping similarities, which Wittgenstein called "family resemblances". In this way, Wittgenstein was something of a nominalist, rejecting essentialism. (My Description)
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