# Context Independence Context independence is the degree to which a proposition remains intelligible and faithful after removal from its surrounding document. A context-independent unit names enough of its subject, mechanism, scope, and consequence to stand alone without relying on an orphaned pronoun, deictic phrase, or missing transition. Atomic Markdown makes that property a composition-time test rather than a downstream editorial repair. Related: [[wiki/Faithful Decontextualization|Faithful Decontextualization]], [[wiki/Content Atomization|Content Atomization]], [[wiki/Transformational Extraction|Transformational Extraction]], [[projects/Dual-Render Authorship and the Atomic Markdown Double-Brace Grammar|Dual-Render Authorship]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “A good quotation does not merely decorate an argument; it contains one in miniature, which is why it is quotable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* [[reminders/Writing/Why a Good Quotation Is Quotable by Bryant McGill|Why a Good Quotation Is Quotable by Bryant McGill]] > “A good paragraph does not merely decorate an argument; it contains one in miniature, which is why it is memorable.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* [[reminders/Writing/Why a Good Paragraph Is Memorable by Bryant McGill|Why a Good Paragraph Is Memorable by Bryant McGill]] > “A good paragraph does not merely decorate an argument; it contains one in miniature.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* [[reminders/Writing/A Good Paragraph Contains an Argument in Miniature by Bryant McGill|A Good Paragraph Contains an Argument in Miniature by Bryant McGill]] > “Continuity is strongest when ideas depend upon one another without sentences becoming helpless without one another.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Argument in Miniature, 2026* [[reminders/Writing/Strong Continuity Does Not Make Sentences Helpless by Bryant McGill|Strong Continuity Does Not Make Sentences Helpless by Bryant McGill]]