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    It is not the case that Players must accept the constitutive rules of a game for any game to be possible.

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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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    • 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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