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Similarity: Similarity is the conformity of one or more - but not all - properties of two or more objects. See also Identity, Equality, Properties, Predicates, Predication, Identification, Descriptions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Similarity - Dictionary of Arguments
II 52 Anticipation/Wittgenstein: pointless: to explain it by the fact, as you anticipate "something similar" - similarity is only there with two present, distinct things. II 56 Expectation is not dependent on some future things. - It may be that it remains unfulfilled. - It is all about fitting instead of similarity. II 53 Similarity/Portrait/Wittgenstein: there are good portraits, which are not similar - Criterion for a Portrait: Intention - intention: but cannot be expressed in the portrait. >Criteria, >Intention. II 63 Only with respect to a projection rule things are similar. >Rules. II 368 Equality/Wittgenstein: if you say something about the equality of lengths, you say something about the method - even equality of numbers can be determined by many different methods. >Equality._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 |