A practice is a dynamic pattern of performance under varying circumstances. Consequently, it cannot be reduced to a set of rules because no such set could be both explicit enough to give adequate guidance and comprehensive enough to cover [new situations].... … On this view, there is little or nothing one can say about the content or structure of a practice, except perhaps to describe the stepby-step process of rote initiation.

XREF: Echoes Polanyi's tacit knowledge and the knowing-more-than-we-can-tell tradition, as well as critiques of codifying expertise. Builds on: "Practices exist and are legitimate before being described or mapped."

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 709