The So-Called Unreality of Sport

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A number of writers have claimed that sport is somehow “unreal,” though it is not always clear what they mean by “unreal.” Thus different meanings of “real” and “unreal” are distinguished in an attempt to show that, in various senses, sport is as real as anything else. For example, some people argue that sport is unreal because it is unproductive, hence unimportant; but unproductive things may have value in and of themselves. Sport also appears to be illusory because its existence depends on the adoption of constitutive rules; but in this respect it is no different from other social institutions. Although sport is not important in the sense of being one of the necessities of life, there are several reasons for ranking it among the higher human goods.

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