##  [Family Resemblance Analysis](/family-resemblance-analysis) 

  ##  [Family Resemblance Analysis](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/family-resemblance-analysis-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

An analytic approach to category and concept individuation that explains membership by overlapping, often heterogeneous similarities among items rather than by a single set of necessary and sufficient properties; members form a network of resemblances with no single property common to all.