But what the likeness theorists seem to have ended up with here is something that suggests a rather unpalatable incommensurability of competing conceptual frameworks.
Simple propositional examples are convenient for the purposes of illustration, but what the likeness approach needs is some evidence that it can transcend such simple examples.
But this raises an enormous question: a likeness of what, exactly?
Or is it what Carlyle called a likeness, bodying forth a spirit that — as his affrighted readers knew — would not, and could not, hold still?
Choueiri, as an amateur closeup card magician, sees a likeness between what he has done and a theory of magic called Too Perfect Theory.
We need to remember the game's past, embrace it and shape the game more in the likeness of what it was meant to be.
When he came to grief,As was perhaps inevitable,His body was overlooked for hours,Having been pressed by force of habit Into the likeness of what had killed him.
It is at an epidemic level in suburban communities, where the quest to get into the right college permeates every waking moment as they attempt to mold themselves into the image and likeness of what they perceive colleges expect.
Art historians, discussing this major work, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, describe how Picasso returned from his holiday in Spain, wiped out the entire face and without seeing Stein, repainted the portrait, drawing not on perceptual likeness but what he knew about the sitter.
What the image and likeness of God, or the divine image, refers to in the biblical texts is not made explicit, and, in light of the fact that the texts are dominated by psychosomatic conceptions of the nature of humanity (i.e., involving both soul and body), it is not possible to escape entirely the implication of "bodily" similarity.
