University of Tabriz Journal of Philosophical Investigations 2251-7960 16 41 2022 12 22 A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance” . A Critical Study of Two Conceptions of Wittgenstein’s “Family Resemblance” . 222 241 14130 10.22034/jpiut.2022.48418.3014 FA Mahdi Mohammadi PhD Candidate of Philosophy, Shahid Beheshti University. Tehran, Iran Asghar Vaezie Associate Professor of Philosophy Department, Shahid Beheshti University. Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2021 10 13 In the Blue Book (pp. 17-18) and in the Philosophical Investigation (§§ 66-67), Wittgenstein offers the idea of ‘family resemblances’ to explain the relation between some ‘things’. This paper first explores two accounts of this idea, one by Renford Bambrough and the other by Ilham Dilman. This reveals that there are at least two different accounts of ‘family resemblances’. Secondly, the paper sets out a critical assessment of both accounts so as to suggest that they both fail at what they claim to do. In the Blue Book (pp. 17-18) and in the Philosophical Investigation (§§ 66-67), Wittgenstein offers the idea of ‘family resemblances’ to explain the relation between some ‘things’. This paper first explores two accounts of this idea, one by Renford Bambrough and the other by Ilham Dilman. This reveals that there are at least two different accounts of ‘family resemblances’. Secondly, the paper sets out a critical assessment of both accounts so as to suggest that they both fail at what they claim to do.

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