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    If conventions merely supplement rules, they are parasiti... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→An adequate account of sport must appeal to collectively agreed-upon norms called conventions.

    If conventions merely supplement rules, they are parasitic on formalism and cannot ground an *adequate* account independent of it.

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    • 1.Rules require interpretation; conventions provide the shared meanings that make interpretation possible at all.
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    • 2.A formalist system cannot explain why the same rule produces different outcomes across contexts without appealing to convention.
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    • 3.If conventions merely supplement rules, they cannot be derived from rules alone, making formalism incomplete by definition.
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    • 1.Conventions themselves require rules to stabilize them; otherwise they collapse into arbitrary practice with no normative force.
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    • 2.An adequate account need not be independent of formalism; supplementation and parasitism are distinct relations.
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    • 3.Many domains (mathematics, logic) succeed with formalist foundations despite convention; adequacy may not require independence.
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