A paper partly titled for one of these constructs uses the example of someone talking about a cat named Bruce in Princeton and one named Albert in New Zealand to lead to a “rule of accommodation for comparative salience.” The thinker who coined the name for these constructs gave the example of using the letters R, G, W, and B to describe the colors of nine squares in a grid. “Narrative knowledge” and “scientific knowledge” reduce to these constructs according to Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition. These constructs are compared to baseball in a paper partly titled for them by David Lewis. These constructs were introduced with the example of a builder who says words like “pillar” and “slab” to his assistant. For 10 points, name these rule-bound interplays between utterances and actions, a key concept in late Wittgenstein. ■END■
ANSWER: language games [or Sprachspiele; prompt on language; prompt on game] (The David Lewis paper is “Scorekeeping in a Language Game.”)
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