2019-03-09
- familial resemblance “There is no feature common to all the individual x’s in the group S, but the whole is only loosely connected by partially common features.”
Communities and organizations without clear boundaries may be in this state. There are no common characteristics among the members of that community or organization.
- In groups where initiation rite etc. exist, “having gone through that rite” becomes a Common Feature. Many people think that “are you employed by that company” is a common trait in traditional companies. (because in reality there are people involved in many different ways, such as contracting, delegating, owning, etc., but they don’t get enough attention)
2023-07-21
2024-09-22 - Overlapping subjective communities. and then re-discovered it via initiation → initiation rite → direct matching is important for human network formation. Discovery.
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