When is a Card Not a Card?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by SetBuilder

(1) The word "postcard" contains the word "card".
(2) An image of a baseball player can be printed on the front of a postcard.
(3) If an image of a baseball player is printed on the front of a postcard, it is now a baseball player postcard.
(4) The phrase "baseball player postcard" can be reduced to "baseball card".
(5) Therefore, a baseball player postcard is a baseball card.

Your logic would also apply to i.d. cards such as passports and drivers licenses.

People can rationalize anything if it works to their advantage. A previous post had someone rationalizing photographs into the mix

A postcard is actually a postcard. A baseball player postcard would be a baseball player postcard.

Luckily for those of us who have been around for enough of these debates, we already have our own thoughts, and given that we are talking about vintage items that have been discussed for decades, it's doubtful that any of us will change our opinions. We are all post-war adolescents, so our thinking about this is actually quite relevant...since we are the only group doing the thinking and discussing.