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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9015468" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>'lusory' is just a fancy way of saying 'gaming'. Academics like to generate terms like this so they can avoid contaminating their discussions with common language arguments I guess. So, 'lusory attitude' simply means "playing a game" and 'lusory means' simply means "game process of play" (at least this is my interpretation, I think its at least roughly correct). So when someone says the players "adopt a lusory attitude" they mean they agree to play a particular game, and by implication follow its rules. Then when they play they use the 'lusory means' to actually play the game. Now, I think those 'means' may or may not be said to include things like boards, dice, pieces, etc. but I think its easiest to assume these fall within the 'means'.</p></blockquote><p></p>