Classical and family resemblance approach to concepts

resemblance  resemblance implies similarity chiefly in appearance or external qualities statements that bear little resemblance to the truth  resemblance · 1 the state or quality of resembling; likeness or similarity in nature, appearance, etc · 2 the degree or extent to which or the respect in

A resemblance is a similarity in appearance Children usually have a strong resemblance to their biological parents  Topological resemblance, defined by the principle of connection, is the priority Then come resemblance in forms and resemblance in developing processes (

resemblance and cerebral disorder may be trans- mitted by either parent , but never by the same ; that where children resemble the parent of the opposite Where does the noun passing resemblance come from? The earliest known use of the noun passing resemblance is in the 1850s OED's earliest evidence for passing