Wittgensteins, Heideggers, and Gadamers, Oh My!

In addition, it is typically the case that a particular series of human events takes part in multiple major practices. The practice of basketball itself of course can contain within it numerous minor practices, including such dispersed practices as asking questions, such more complex practices such as arguing attuned to basketball as arguing calls, and basketball specific practices such as setting picks that will most likely appear in other contexts only as jokes — setting ordinary actions in unexpected social settings is a simple and common comedic tool. Minor practices, however, are organized only by understandings and rules, and it is the teleoaffectivity expressed in major practices that most interests us here. In the practice before us winning need not be the only end. Staying in shape and making and maintaining friendships are other possibilities, and each can ultimately specify actions that conflict with the sole goal of winning, indicating safer plays for health’s sake and less competitive play in certain circumstances to maintain a collegial  mood.