A chair is a thing with a flat raised surface held up by four legs with structure protruding up from one or more edges. Some would be satisfied with this description while others would think it incomplete or no explanation at all.
A chair is something humans sit on. Some would be satisfied with this description while others would think it incomplete or no explanation at all.
There are two ways of describing and comprehending a thing. Some would comprehend it from a description of what it is. While others would require to know the purpose before they felt like they understood it. The full explanation would be to describe it and give its purpose.
I have a yellow chair in my dining room that spends most of it time as a hat rack. I throw all my hats on it and I grab one before I run outside. The chair has also been called to serve as a punch bowl holder, and a foot stool.
The chair was created for the purpose of a human to sit on, but I have tolerated it being used a few different ways. Because my yellow chair spends most of its time as a hat rack, I've grown to think of it as a hat rack. My yellow hat rack. My wife would never accept it as a hat rack, but she does tolerate it as one.
If the state were to pass a law declaring a flat raised surface held up by four legs with structure protruding up from one or more edges as a hat rack, would it really turn my chair into a hat rack?
