The static quality of my description, which intelligent critics such as these intuitively feel, inheres in the fact that it is a description. It is, however, a description of a process that is necessarily in transition all the time: the observers who characterize change are also necessary participants in giving meaning.

QUESTION: This raises the observer-participant puzzle: how can one accurately describe change while being embedded within it? Worth chasing the epistemological implications further.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 482