Artefacts and Family Resemblance
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Artefacts and Family Resemblance
I develop in this paper a conception of artefacts based on L. Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance. My approach peruses the notion of frame, which was invented in cognitive psychology as an operationisable extension of this philosophical idea. Following the metaphor of life-cycle I show how this schematic notion of frame may be filled with the content relevant for artefacts if we consider ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Philosophy and Psychology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1878-5158,1878-5166
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-013-0145-4