on a metaphysical level. The simplest view, though not very popular, sees resemblance as a fundamental aspect of reality that cannot be reduced to other aspects. The more common view is that the similarity between two things is determined by other facts, for example, by the properties they share, by their qualitative distance or by the existence of certain transformations between them. These conceptions analyze resemblance in terms of other aspects instead of treating it as a fundamental relation.

Numerical

The numerical conception

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