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Participants in the “game of giving and asking for reasons” (-5[1])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 (-5[1])Making it Explicit. A paper titled for this activity describes how a master’s orders shift the boundary between permissible and impermissible conduct. (15[1])That paper titled for this activity introduces the (*) 7-dimensional vector (10[1]0[2])■END■

ANSWER: scorekeeping [or word forms like keeping score; accept deontic scorekeeping; accept “Scorekeeping in a Language Game”; prompt on language games before mention]
<FW, Philosophy (Contemporary)>
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