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Participants in the “game of giving and asking for reasons” engage in a form of this activity by recognizing everyone’s commitments and entitlements. A paper titled for this activity notes how “the cat” can mean “Bruce” or “Albert, our New Zealand cat” at different points in a statement. Conversation is modeled as a “deontic” form of this activity in Robert Brandom’s Making it Explicit. A paper titled for this activity describes how a master’s orders shift the boundary between permissible and impermissible conduct. That paper titled for this activity introduces the (*) 7-dimensional vector “r-sub-v, r-sub-h, h, i, s, b, o” and notes that while new presuppositions are allowed by the rule of accommodation, walking to first after three balls doesn’t change the count. For 10 points, David Lewis compared the rules (-5[1])of conversation and baseball in a paper titled for doing what activity “in a Language Game?” ■END■ (0[5])

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