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    The logical incompatibility thesis leads to the implausible implication that any game in which a rule is broken ends at the point of rule-breaking

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    • 1.Searle's distinction between regulative and constitutive rules entails that violating a constitutive rule destroys the very activity the rule constitutes.
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    • 2.The rules defining fouls in basketball are constitutive, not merely regulative, so a foul does not break the game's constitutive rules but instantiates them.
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    • 3.Therefore, foul rules are part of the constitutive structure, meaning their violation triggers defined in-game consequences rather than terminating the game-instance.
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    • 1.Suits's lusory attitude analysis entails that accepting the constitutive rules is what makes one a game-player, so rejecting them mid-game dissolves one's status as a player.
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    • 2.When a sprinter commits a false start, the race officials apply a penalty rule that is itself constitutive, meaning no genuine race-instance was ever completed up to that point.
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    • 3.The logical incompatibility thesis is thus vindicated: the false-start scenario shows the race did end at transgression, and what continues is a new or resumed game-instance, not the original one.
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    • 1.The logical incompatibility thesis holds that rule-breaking is incompatible with gameplaying
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    • 2.If rule-breaking is incompatible with gameplaying, then any foul or accidental transgression of the rules would cause the game to end
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    • 3.Games regularly involve fouls and accidental transgressions without ending (e.g., false starts in sprinting, strategic fouls in basketball, shots hit out in tennis)
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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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    Therefore, foul rules are part of the constitutive structure, meaning their viol...
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