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" ince ( e. g. ) building is an art and is essentially a reasoned productive state, and since there is no art that is not a state of this kind, and no state of this kind that is not an art, it follows that art is the same as a productive state that is truly reasoned.

Every art is concerned with bringing something into being, and the practice of an art is the study of how to bring into being something that is capable either of being or of not being.

For it is not with things that are or come to be of necessity that art is concerned is the domain of episteme nor with natural objects ( because these have their origin in themselves ).

Art.

operate in the sphere of the variable.