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  2. Family resemblance - Wikipedia

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    In this example, which presents an indefinitely extended ordered family, resemblance is seen in shared features: each item shares three features with his neighbors e.g. Item_2 is like Item_1 in respects B, C, D, and like Item_3 in respects C, D, E. Obviously what we call 'resemblance' involves different aspects in each particular case.

  3. Deathbed phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Hallucinations caused by drugs frequently contain images of otherworldly beings and deceased friends and relatives. [4] Some scientists who have studied cases of deathbed phenomena have described the visual, auditory, and sensed presences of deceased relatives or angelic beings during the dying process as hallucinations.

  4. These Four People Were Faced with Death and Lived to Tell ...

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    The post These Four People Were Faced with Death and Lived to Tell Their Stories appeared first on Reader's Digest. These four people survived terrifying ordeals, against all odds.

  5. Family resemblance (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    Family resemblance is also shaped by environmental factors, temperature, light, nutrition, exposure to drugs, the time that different family members spend in shared and non-shared environments, are examples of factors found to influence phenotype.

  6. Life review - Wikipedia

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    Life review [a] is a phenomenon widely reported in near-death experiences in which people see their life history in an instantaneous and rapid manifestation of autobiographical memory. Life review is often described by those who have experienced it as "having their life flash before their eyes".

  7. Near-death experience - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent French term expérience de mort imminente ("experience of imminent death") was proposed by French psychologist and epistemologist Victor Egger as a result of discussions in the 1890s among philosophers and psychologists concerning climbers' stories of the panoramic life review during falls.

  8. Similarity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The term family resemblance refers to Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea that certain concepts cannot be defined in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions which refer to essential features shared by all examples. [39] [40] Instead, the use of one concept for all its cases is justified by resemblance relations based on their

  9. The Fly (Mansfield short story) - Wikipedia

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    The Fly" is a 1922 short story by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield wrote the story in February 1922 at the Victoria Palace Hotel in Montparnasse, Paris. It was first published in The Nation and Athenaeum on 18 March 1922 and in The Doves' Nest and Other Stories in 1923. [1] The story relates to the death of a soldier in World War I.