Comment by generalizations
3 years ago
"vehicle:"
* means of carrying or transporting something (planes, trains, and other vehicles) such as a) motor vehicle or b) a piece of mechanized equipment - Websters Online Dictionary
* 1) any means in or by which someone travels or something is carried or conveyed; a means of conveyance or transport: a motor vehicle; space vehicles. 2) conveyance moving on wheels, runners, tracks, or the like, as a cart, sled, automobile, or tractor. - dictionary.com
* a machine, usually with wheels and an engine, used for transporting people or goods, especially on land - Cambridge Dictionary
Any of these definitions could have been applied successfully to the series of questions on the website without ambiguity (edit: without ambiguity, but each would have led to different sets of conclusions). Which is to say, the entire point of the excercise reduces down to finding out which definition of the word someone is working from. This is only a problem if we're dealing with something that can't be defined, or something that we refuse to define.
Such as "No hate speech".
As it’s enforced today, that would be relatively easy to define, but I don’t think anyone wants to actually say out loud what that definition would be.
Let's take the third definition. Do the roller skates count? The wheelchair? The rowboat?
None of those have an engine, which both the first and third definitions would say is typical.
That's why the only vehicle that made me pause was the tank, since it was at one point motorized, but no longer.
I interpreted the tank as a form of sculpture, not a vehicle.
Typical, sure, but not required!
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