Game as Paradox: A Rebuttal of Suits

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 39 (1):155-168 (2012)
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Abstract

Here I examine Bernard Suits’s definition of games and explain why that definition is in need of reference to representation or, put more generally, to semiosis. And, once admitting the necessity of the representational in games, Suits’s definition must also then admit the essential paradoxy of games.

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The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia.Bernard Suits - 1978 - Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
Laws of form.George Spencer-Brown - 1969 - New York,: Julian Press.
Triad Trickery: Playing With Sport and Games.Klaus V. Meier - 1988 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 15 (1):11-30.
Words On Play.Bernard Suits - 1977 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 4 (1):117-131.

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