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    If every purportedly external feature can be absorbed int... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A game is not fully determined by its game form alone.

    If every purportedly external feature can be absorbed into a sufficiently rich game form, then the claim reduces to a trivial point about underspecified formal models, not games as such.

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    Reduces to(describes the relationship between identity and organization)
    When one thing can be completely explained by or broken down into something simpler; here, the idea that personal identity is nothing more than organizational structure.
    Trivial(as used in philosophical analysis)
    In philosophy, something that is obvious or unhelpful because it doesn't give us any new information or insight.
    Underspecified(contrasting with 'complete' when describing whether a court's reasoning was thorough)
    Not fully explained or detailed enough; missing some important information or steps in the reasoning, even though what was said wasn't wrong.
    absorbed(as used in metaphysics)
    Taken in or included as part of something else; here it means the binding cannot simply be incorporated into the property itself.

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    external feature(in contrast to internal properties of a game)
    A characteristic or quality that seems to exist outside of or independent from something else.
    formal models(theoretical representations as opposed to actual games)
    Abstract mathematical or logical systems designed to represent how something works, stripped of real-world details.
    game form(Formal game theory)
    A space where players can operate; the structural component of a game, distinct from the players' contributed features such as preferences and observational limitations.
    purportedly(describing features that are said to be external)
    Claimed or supposed to be true, but not necessarily proven to be.

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