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    The constitutive rule/regulative rule distinction allows ... — Carmelics
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    The constitutive rule/regulative rule distinction allows formalism to overcome the objection that any rule-breaking ends a game

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    • 1.Regulative rules determine how a game is to be restarted following a transgression (e.g., restarting a race, a free kick, a second serve)
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    • 2.Regulative rules determine how rule-breakers are to be penalized (e.g., disqualification, penalty kick, loss of a point)
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    • 3.These mechanisms allow the game to be reinstated rather than terminated after a rule violation
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    • 1.The constitutive/regulative distinction presupposes a stable boundary between rule types, but Searle's own framework shows this boundary is contestable and context-dependent.
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    • 2.If constitutive rules define what counts as a move in a game, then a penalty kick already presupposes a constitutive rule recognizing fouls as game-relevant events, collapsing the distinction.
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    • 3.Bernard Suits' analysis of the 'lusory attitude' suggests rule violations that invoke penalties are still governed by constitutive rules, making the regulative category redundant rather than explanatory.
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    • 1.Formalism requires that the identity of a game be fully determined by its rules, but regulative rules vary across leagues and jurisdictions while the game is held to remain the same.
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    • 2.If the same constitutive game (football) can persist across radically different regulative frameworks, then regulative rules cannot be doing the identity-preserving work formalism needs them to do.
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    Another criticism that has been levelled against formalism is the apparently implausible implication of the logical incompatibility thesis that any game in which a rule is broken ends at the point at which the rule-breaking occurs. If rule-breaking is incompatible with gameplaying then any foul or accidental transgression of the rules would cause the game to end. For instance, a 100m sprint would cease when a runner makes a false start. A basketball game would terminate when a player commits a s
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