Later, Vygotsky contributed to its conceptual elaboration by noting, via experiment, that children do not form classificatory concepts in the terms predicted by formal logic.
An early example of the concept comes from the work of W?adys?aw Tatarkiewicz, who discussed it with reference to dominoes. Later, Vygotsky contributed to its conceptual elaboration by noting, via experiment, that children do not form classificatory concepts in the terms predicted by formal logic. And more recently, racist American anthropologist Vincent Sarich has analogized the concept to race to buttress his pernicious essentialistm. But it is Wittgenstein who made the concept famous--first by resorting to the image of a rope but more famously by discussing the trickiness of defining "games" in Philosophical Investigations. For ten points, name this term for a group of categorical items that share no universal common features and so can only be defined by reference to their overlapping similarities.
An early example of the concept comes from the work of W?adys?aw Tatarkiewicz, who discussed it with reference to dominoes.
{family resemblance}