<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Once the ontology and quotation spine establish... > Once the ontology and quotation spine establish contextual gravity, AI can help realize the connective prose: research can be arranged, transitions attempted, mechanisms expanded, objections introduced, and paragraph structures tested at a speed no unaided writer could sustain. That does not make the realization inconsequential. Every paragraph must still open on recoverable ground, develop adequately, preserve evidence and uncertainty, and close with an earned consequence. It does mean that syntactic realization is downstream of the more original decisions about the objects, relations, standards, and claims the language must preserve. {{In a mature authoring system, sentence production is downstream of the harder work of deciding what the sentences are allowed to mean.}} [[reminders/Writing/Sentence Production Is Downstream of Meaning by Bryant McGill|∴]] **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 ``` “Once the ontology and quotation spine establish contextual gravity, AI can help realize the connective prose: research can be arranged, transitions attempted, mechanisms expanded, objections introduced, and paragraph structures tested at a speed no unaided writer could sustain. That does not make the realization inconsequential. Every paragraph must still open on recoverable ground, develop adequately, preserve evidence and uncertainty, and close with an earned consequence. It does mean that syntactic realization is downstream of the more original decisions about the objects, relations, standards, and claims the language must preserve. In a mature authoring system, sentence production is downstream of the harder work of deciding what the sentences are allowed to mean. ∴” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-once-ontology-quotation-sentences-allowed-mean ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->