Theory is a set of relays from one practical point to another, and practice is a relay from one theory to another. No practice can develop without eventually encountering a wall, and theory is necessary for piercing this wall.
Is there more than the selective recollection of past practices, the way people have happened to have done things in particular occasions? What is the urge for supplementarity - for a 'something more than' - which invoking culture so often appeals to?
The maxim "Practice makes perfect" was devised for such activities as this, inasmuch as the continual, nearly imperceptible adjustments necessary for riding a bicycle are best learned by having to make them.
But complex and implicit reason is still reason, and a practice with simple formal features hovering above a pervasive but unnoticed background of linguistic habits is still a practice.
If we are willing to concede that the maintenance of routine social and cultural expectations requires increased investments [...], and is increasingly a product of improvisation rather than habit, it is incumbent upon us to rethink the elementary logics of sociality once again.
It is not sufficient to say that the idea of practice does its best to seize or seizes the complexity of human phenomena. We must add that it, and it alone, seizes their growing complexity.
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