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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 9002850" data-attributes="member: 71699">Right! And that might be so. My view is that we don't know that it is so. That is to say, there could be a culture whose norms bar changing game rules. So I ask myself, am I prepared to make the claim in the strongest modality (which is &quot;true in all possible worlds&quot;.)Given that we are speaking of behaviour in the domain of games and language, which can (and is) described as arising in virtue of known and unknown rules, I see it as plausible that there is (let's call it neutrally) a disposition toward changing game rules that is not universal. That is down to unwritten rules (possibly very deep rules, admittedly, and likely bound up with principles.) Buttressing that plausibility, unless I suppose that written rules cannot have any impact on in-the-moment acceptance, I feel able to write a rule that if followed changes that disposition, making it (for those who put such a rule in force for themselves) optional.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 9002850, member: 71699"] Right! And that might be so. My view is that we don't [I]know[/I] that it is so. That is to say, there could be a culture whose norms bar changing game rules. So I ask myself, am I prepared to make the claim in the strongest modality (which is "true in all possible worlds".) Given that we are speaking of behaviour in the domain of games and language, which can (and is) described as arising in virtue of known and unknown rules, I see it as plausible that there is (let's call it neutrally) a [I]disposition[/I] toward changing game rules that is not universal. That is down to unwritten rules (possibly very deep rules, admittedly, and likely bound up with principles.) Buttressing that plausibility, unless I suppose that written rules [I]cannot [/I]have any impact on in-the-moment acceptance, I feel able to write a rule that if followed changes that disposition, making it (for those who put such a rule in force for themselves) optional. [/QUOTE]

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