To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity. 'playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles' To Wittgenstein's assertion that 'game' can't be defined by means of listing necessary and sufficient conditions for something's being a game, Suits responds: I was put on to it by Jerry Cohen who mentioned it when we were recording a forthcoming episode of Philosophy Bites.īernard Suit s combines witty parody of Platonic dialogues with serious philosophy about the nature of games (and by implication Wittgenstein's pronouncements on family resemblance terms and the attempt My excuse for writing this now is that this book was a pleasant discovery and I want other people to know about it. The mystery to me is that it is hardly known in the UK, despite a fulsome puff from SImon Blackburn. What am I doing reviewing a book that was originally published in 1978? The Grasshopper was reissued with an introduction by Thom as Hurka in 2005.
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