The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 32. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 290 falsifiability pseudo-science or of good intellectual standing as with much philosophy. Falsifiability leads to fallibilism the position that nothing including observation statements can be known with certainty. This requires that certain observational statements are taken as basic by general agreement a feature that is the Achilles heel of falsifica-tionism. . Karl R. Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery London 1959 . family ethics and the. The ethics of the family concerns first problems within a family such as the extent to which children should be allowed to make their own decisions and how far parents should be held responsible for their children s behaviour and secondly problems about the family such as what constitutes a family and how far a family unit should be kept together despite dysfunctional parents or children. The first set of issues has come to the forefront because there has been more emphasis in contemporary morality on children s rights. But the language of rights fits awkwardly into the context of the family which is basically a kind of mutually supporting community ideally providing security for the development of children. This is why to move to the second set of issues social workers and others go to some lengths to try to keep a family unit together. Those who stress family values have in mind married heterosexual parents and two children but one-parent families and families with same-sex parents are now common. Since the idea of the family carries many moral implications it is perhaps less discriminatory to think of the social unit as a household rather than a family. . J. Blustein Parents and Children The Ethics ofthe Family New York 1982 . Lainie Friedman Ross Children Families and Health Care DecisionMaking Oxford 1998 . family resemblance. Quasi-technical Wittgensteinian term. Wittgenstein denied that all definables must be explained by an analytic definition specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for the .
