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“The structure of a fully articulated profession is such that those who enter its precincts will find that the basic decisions, about where to look, what to do, and how to do it, have already been made.”

Stanley Fish

as cited in Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, p. 135

Decision

“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”

Stanley Fish

Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 39

World , Appearance

“The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.”

Stanley Fish

Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 8, First Sentences, p. 99

Sense