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    The constitutive rule/regulative rule distinction does not adequately address the objection against formalism

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    • 1.It remains unclear when a rule is constitutive or regulative
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    • 2.An outfield soccer player using her hands to stop a counterattack is judged as a strategic foul under a regulative rule
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    • 3.If players constantly used their hands, the game would become either impossible or a different game entirely
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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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