# The Author Supplies the Gravity of an Argument by Bryant McGill > “In ontology-guided writing, the machine may supply sentences, but the author supplies the gravity that makes them fall into an argument.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]], “AI-assisted authorship and contextual gravity” (September 27, 2026). - **Exact wording:** “In ontology-guided writing, the machine may supply sentences, but the author supplies the gravity that makes them fall into an argument.” - **Context:** The passage defines the wiki ontology as the conceptual structure that constrains generated language before production and evaluates it afterward. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Project:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature]] - **Project:** [[projects/Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine|Ten Years Building a Symbolic Language Engine]] - **Journal:** [[journal/2026-08-15 - Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity|Bidirectional Ontology and Semantic Elasticity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Ontology|Ontology]] - [[wiki/Bidirectional Ontology|Bidirectional Ontology]] - [[wiki/Semantic Governance|Semantic Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “In ontology-guided writing, the machine may supply sentences, but the author supplies the gravity that makes them fall into an argument.” — Bryant McGill, The Argument in Miniature, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-bryant-mcgill-author-supplies-argument-gravity ```