<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # A developed wiki gives AI-assisted writing a... > A developed wiki gives AI-assisted writing a conceptual world rather than a pile of notes. Its ontology records what I think important terms mean, which distinctions must remain intact, how concepts relate, where evidence qualifies a claim, and where my own position remains unsettled. Those relations contribute context before a sentence is generated and standards after it appears. {{In ontology-guided writing, the machine may supply sentences, but the author supplies the gravity that makes them fall into an argument.}} [[reminders/Information/The Author Supplies the Gravity of an Argument by Bryant McGill|∴]] The ontology is therefore not background material appended to the work; it is part of the causal structure that determines what the work is allowed to become. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “A developed wiki gives AI-assisted writing a conceptual world rather than a pile of notes. Its ontology records what I think important terms mean, which distinctions must remain intact, how concepts relate, where evidence qualifies a claim, and where my own position remains unsettled. Those relations contribute context before a sentence is generated and standards after it appears. In ontology-guided writing, the machine may supply sentences, but the author supplies the gravity that makes them fall into an argument. ∴ The ontology is therefore not background material appended to the work; it is part of the causal structure that determines what the work is allowed to become.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-developed-wiki-gives-work-allowed-become ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->