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Analogy in Thomas Aquinas and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A comparison
Frank Drescher
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New Blackfriars / Volume 99 / Issue 1081 / May 2018

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01 January 2024, pp. 346-359

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May 2018
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The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the concept of analogy in the late works of St. Thomas Aquinas, i.e., in his two Summas, and to go on to compare this with Ludwig Wittgenstein's concept of “family resemblance” (“Familienähnlichkeit”), in order to reveal some interesting similarities between the named linguistic‐philosophical concepts of these two very different thinkers.