In his The Promising Game (1964) Hare argues that the obligation to obey a promise, on the constitutive-rule convention view, requires that we be obligated to play the game in order to ensure that we are obligated to keep our promises, but that such an obligation cannot come from inside the game itself.
"Now I feel totally obligated to keep the study going.
So the government should not be obligated to keep paying interest.
Thus, the government should not be obligated to keep paying interest.
The new owner will not be obligated to keep the papers together.
As long as price growth remains subdued, it will feel obligated to keep priming the economy.
A new lieutenant governor isn't obligated to keep people where they are, which is creating deep anxiety.
As captain, he's certainly obligated to keep contract matters submerged for the greater good of the team.
There are certain things a host of a knitter's convention is obligated to keep in mind, she confided.
The Sherminator seems to be legally obligated to keep his bat vertical, and keeps paddling it back.
After his dad died, he felt obligated to keep the business going even though he dreamed of doing something else.
