QUICK PHILOSOPHY OF MIND II
INTERNET ON HAND
December 7, 2007QUICK PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
December 12, 2007From Norms, Networks, and Trails by Adrian Cussins
If the ‘rules’ don’t pre-empt what is properly possible in the ‘game’, then the ‘rules’ become part of what is negotiated by the ‘players’. If the ‘rules’ become part of what is negotiated by the ‘players’, then we end up with the comical but also absurd activity of “Calvinball” from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon strip.
Counter-examples:
1) The US Constitution contains provisions for revising and amending the constitution.
2) Wikipedia encourages active discussion of its policies and guidelines.
Perhaps these processes are comical and absurd, but I don’t think they undermine the normative structure of the game as such. Am I wrong?
