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What does filiation mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent.
  2. (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline.
  3. (countable, law) The determination of paternity.
  4. (countable, law) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.
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We have in some way to try to grasp the idea of a relation of fatherhood or filiation which is reflexive.
Table 1 illustrates the principal governing legacies in the evolution of economic thinking, and their filiation through succeeding generations.
Am I not drawn to you, for example, out of elective affinity, rather than remaining fixed within the boundaries of filiation?
Thus, without either a legal-status designator or filiation, it must remain uncertain whether he was freeborn or a freed slave.
In contrast, they draw attention to families defined by both filiation and affiliation.
At the same time, however, in the matter of filiation, the Civil code states that a child cannot have two fathers or two mothers.

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