Thinking precedes and determines all interpretive composition

Evidence

Perhaps this brief comment will serve to point out the indispensability of deep meditation of all the conditions to be met, of the subject and of people and their limitations, before any writing whatever is attempted. I suppose it sums up this way: you must be in love with your material, and you must be in tune with your fellow man. What ensues is composition; not easy, needing pitiless editing and cool criticism, full of pitfalls, barbed with discouraging false starts and notes—but a great joy when the bull’s-eye is hit. But the thinking will determine the result. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 406

Categorization

• XREF: The whole chapter’s thesis lands here: thought-first method echoes Tilden’s framing of interpretation as an art built from science and love, cohering with ch15 and ch16. — connects to: The mind includes what is not expressed but still determines behavior — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 739; Reflective thought forms a chain of linked units toward a common end — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1254

Broader Connections

• The mind includes what is not expressed but still determines behavior #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 739
• Reflective thought forms a chain of linked units toward a common end #corroborates (0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1254