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    An adequate account of sport must appeal to collectively ... — Carmelics
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    An adequate account of sport must appeal to collectively agreed-upon norms called conventions.

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    • 1.Sports are governed not only by formal rules but also by unofficial, implicit conventions that determine how rules are applied in concrete circumstances.
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    • 2.Formal rules alone cannot account for behaviors that are enforced through blame and rebuke but not written into the rulebook (e.g., kicking the ball out of play when a player requires medical attention in soccer).
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    • 1.Bernard Suits's formalist account shows sport is fully constituted by 'lusory goals' and 'constitutive rules' without invoking shared conventions.
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    • 2.What appear to be conventions (e.g., kicking the ball out) are better explained as defeasible moral obligations arising from general ethics, not sport-specific norms.
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    • 3.If conventions merely supplement rules, they are parasitic on formalism and cannot ground an *adequate* account independent of it.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations imply that conventions themselves require interpretation, generating a regress that conventions alone cannot terminate.
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    • 2.An appeal to conventions displaces rather than solves the problem of rule application, since what counts as the relevant convention is itself contested in practice.
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    Conventionalists argue that an adequate account of sport must appeal to collectively agreed-upon norms called ‘conventions.’ Fred D’Agostino, the pioneer of conventionalism, maintains that the conventions that operate within a game constitute the ‘ethos’ of the game. The ethos of a game is the ‘set of unofficial, implicit conventions which determine how the rules of a game are to be applied in concrete circumstances’ (D’Agostino, 1981, 15). Thus, from a conventionalist perspective, sports compri
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