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Sport is shown to be a \"human-made\" entity that has no essential nature or pre-determined meaning. As a result, sport can and should be described and redescribed many different ways. This thesis concludes that redescribing sport in terms of art will have a two-fold effect on sport. Firstly, the current descriptions and perceptions of sport can be challenged and descriptions which depart from the norm will be encouraged. Secondly, there can exist in sport description and reporting the provision to promote the kind criticism which is usually afforded only to art. It is the concern of philosophic inquiry to examine these issues in a critical and logically sound manner. To a certain extent the philosophic method combines the logical and critical approach with a more imaginative or projective concern. The philosophic method goes beyond the said and the done, to the possibly said and the possibly done. 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