A critique of Suits’s (alleged) counterexample to Wittgenstein’s position on the definability of ‘game’

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Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 47 (1):89-104 (2019)
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A central theme in the philosophy of sport literature is the definability of games. According to Thomas Hurka, and others, the argument presented by Bernard Suits in The Grasshopper refutes...

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Suits and the phenomenology of games: a reply to Johnson and Hudecki.Micah D. Tillman - 2022 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 49 (2):230-245.

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