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    Players must accept the constitutive rules of a game for any game to be possible.

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    • 1.In the absence of players accepting the constitutive rules, no game can take place.
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    • 2.The lusory attitude just is this acceptance of constitutive rules as necessary for play.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that rule-compliance is constituted by behavioral dispositions, not prior acts of acceptance or propositional attitudes.
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    • 2.Suits conflates causal-dispositional conformity to rules with the normative acceptance of rules as a distinct mental act.
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    • 3.A game can be fully instantiated by players whose behavior systematically conforms to constitutive rules without any moment of explicit acceptance.
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    • 1.Young children and non-human animals engage in rule-governed play without consciously accepting or representing those rules as binding.
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    • 2.If play can occur without explicit acceptance of constitutive rules, acceptance cannot be a necessary condition for game possibility.
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    The final element of gameplaying is attitudinal. Suits argues that, to play a game, one must have the ‘lusory attitude’. Players must commit themselves to playing in accordance with the rules that constitute the game just so that the game can take place. The type of motivation must be a particular kind (or at least must include motivation of a particular kind): players must respect the rules because they wish to play and they endorse the formalist view that breaking the rules necessarily ends th
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