There are three confusing phrases used frequently in art theory that all seem to mean the same thing, but don't.  They have a long history of being rhetorically abused, because people are more certain that they all mean something good, than they are about what they mean.  Many people have tried to [win arguments without making them] by changing the meanings of these phrases.   Today they've been adapted to use as a shell game, so people can avoid being called out on their contradictory beliefs

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