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if you take apart a lawn mower...is it a sliding scale of lawn mowerness?
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Intelligence isn't a single point though, some people are more intelligent than others, for example: Stephen Hawking is more intelligent than I am.
And even lawnmowers aren't as clear cut as you make them out to be. Sure, both a non-electric push mower and the latest and greatest Ride-along Mower 3000 with mulching-action and fertilizer-mix are both lawn mowers, but one does a better job than the other (the 3000 is cleaner, quicker, easier, more jobs done at once, etc.)They seem to have more differences than similarities, yet we call them both lawnmowers. Any object that mows lawns can qualify as a lawn mower, so there may not be a sliding scale of lawnmowerness, but there certainly is a sliding scale of efficiency in mowing lawns, or cleanliness, or ease, or whatever.