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    The meaning of 'vehicle' can be fixed by social conventio... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The legal effect of the Road Traffic Act does not depend merely on physical facts and social facts.

    The meaning of 'vehicle' can be fixed by social conventions and community practices without invoking irreducibly normative facts.

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    • 1.Social conventions successfully fix meanings for countless terms (money, property, marriage) without explicit normative grounding.
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    • 2.Community practices create de facto standards that constrain usage; 'vehicle' succeeds when communities converge on similar applications.
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    • 3.Invoking normative facts adds explanatory burdens without additional predictive power for how communities actually use language.
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    • 1.Social conventions themselves presuppose normative facts about what speakers *ought* to mean or how they *should* coordinate.
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    • 2.Drawing boundaries between vehicles and non-vehicles (e.g., skateboards vs. cars) requires implicit normative judgments about function and purpose.
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    • 3.Explaining *why* communities converge on certain meanings rather than others requires appeal to normative facts about salience and correctness.
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