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Old May 8 2008, 5:51 AM
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I suppose what is meant is this: If an attribute (in this case being art) applies universally to everything, it loses any way to define itself and thus its own identity. It has no opposites anymore (like nature, for example), so it becomes something that is form- and meaningless. Calling something art would be as meaningless as calling an specific animal organic, so the term art, in a sense, dissolves into nothing.