Dokument: Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited
| Titel: | Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=70738 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20250912-100617-5 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Publikationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Texte » Artikel, Aufsatz | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autor: | Hommen, David [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beschreibung: | In ‘Universals and Family Resemblances’, Renford Bambrough claims that Ludwig Wittgenstein's conception of family resemblance solves the problem of universals. Bambrough's analysis has attracted a number of criticisms, including (i) that his exposition of the problem of universals is ill- conceived, (ii) that he overgeneralizes Wittgenstein's claims about family resemblance and (iii) that his reconstruction of Wittgensteinian family resemblance fails as a solution to the problem of universals.
In this paper, I revisit Bambrough's account in light of these objections. I try to show that, despite its shortcomings, Bambrough presents a viable approach to the problem of universals that also seems to match Wittgenstein's original view—which is, quite surprisingly, committed to an essentialist framework of sorts and propagates a tacit form of knowledge of the subsumption principles of general terms. | |||||||
| Rechtliche Vermerke: | Originalveröffentlichung:
Hommen, D. (2025). Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough’s analysis revisited. Philosophical Investigations, 48(4), 401–420. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.70000 | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Philosophische Fakultät | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 12.09.2025 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 12.09.2025 |
