Response to Denise's question

"If art is an abstract concept, how can we describe it without examples and anecdotes?"
For the large part, I dont think it can be described without examples, not completely anyways. Though it can be done, I think it would take blatant, and completely excessive use of generalization. However these generalizations would be most easily reached through use of examples and anecdotes, from a great many sources, averaged and combined into one. Could these generalizations be arrived at without use of anecdote and example perhaps? 'T would take some pondering. Can art be described without any of the three though? (the three being generalization, example, and anecdote.)