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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 (15[1])“Albert, our New Zealand cat” at different (15[1])points in a statement. Conversation is modeled as a “deontic” form of this activity (-5[1])in Robert Brandom’s Making it Explicit. A paper titled for this (15[1])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 (10[1])doesn’t change the count. For 10 points, David Lewis compared the rules of conversation and baseball (-5[1])in a paper titled for doing what activity “in a Language Game?” ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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