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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

aria di famiglia

English translation:

family likeness/resemblance

Added to glossary by simon tanner
Dec 17, 2008 10:38
15 yrs ago
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Italian term

aria di famiglia

Italian to English Social Sciences History history of religions
This one really has me stumped. At first thought it could be a typo for 'area', but not even sure that helps

the context:
Sulla base del metodo storico-critico è poi possibile ricuperare la nozione di “etnocentrismo critico”, che consente di reintrodurre l’apparato concettuale occidentale, compresa la nozione di religione (magari intesa in un senso debole, tramite concetti come quello di analogia e quello di ***aria di famiglia***).

Thanks again
Simon
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 family likeness
3 +1 familarity
3 +1 resemblance / family resemblance
3 running in the family
3 family

Discussion

simon tanner (asker) Dec 22, 2008:
in fact it seems that both family likeness and resemblance are used, so I'm putting both in the glossary. The one I actually used was family likeness, mainly because I preferred the sound of it. Thanks to everyone, especially Science451 and Shera Lyn
simon tanner (asker) Dec 17, 2008:
family likeness this is a philosophical concept (Wittgenstein), which seems to be translated in Italian with "aria di famiglia". At least that's the idea I got from some quick googling. This would clearly give weight to Science451's answer. Any philosophers able to provide confirmation?

Proposed translations

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22 mins
Selected

family likeness

The Notion of "religion" in Comparative Research: Selected ... - Risultati da Google Libridi International Association for the History of ... - 1994 - Religion - 921 pagine
Rationalism | Religion | Congresses Religion Congresses Religion ... "Polythetic classification" resembles the **family likeness** approach in that it holds ...
books.google.it/books?isbn=8870628523...

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http://books.google.it/books?id=4AKV1PK8bxcC&pg=PA833&lpg=PA...

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In translations of Wittgenstein's works, his term, Familienähnlichkeit is variously translated as both "family resemblance" and "family likeness" with, often, both versions appearing in the same English translation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
Peer comment(s):
agree James (Jim) Davis : Family resemblance (German Familienähnlichkeit [1]) is a philosophical idea proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with the most well known exposition being given in the posthumously published book Philosophical Investigations (1953) [2].
1 hr
thanks!
agree Dana Rinaldi
2 hrs
grazie!
agree Barbara Cochran, MFA : Same thing I found in Rizzoli Larousse Grande.
2 hrs
grazie!
agree Peter Cox : family resemblance
4 hrs
thanks
agree Rossella Mainardis
4 hrs
thanks
agree Carla Monticelli
5 hrs
thanks
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks a lot!"
5 mins

running in the family

I think they just mean "something familiar", e.g. the Christmas tree or the crib...
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+1
5 mins

familarity

Could this be it?

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Sorry: familIarity
Peer comment(s):
agree Barbara Toffolon (X)
32 mins
Grazie, Barbara :-)
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22 mins

family

i suppose referring to religion in terms of concepts such as analogy and family.
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+1
1 hr

resemblance / family resemblance

see for example:

http://www.citeulike.org/group/1788/article/1677988
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/mtsr/2000/000000...
point 2.1 of this one:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~hexham/courses/courses-2008/rels-205...




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another interesting link
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:IiCHRlRLxpEJ:www.anselm...
Note from asker:
thanks for your help, Shera Lyn
Peer comment(s):
agree James (Jim) Davis : Family resemblance (German Familienähnlichkeit [1]) is a philosophical idea proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, with the most well known exposition being given in the posthumously published book Philosophical Investigations (1953) [2].
23 mins
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