# Change

## Small account

A description can remain still while the situation changes.

## Expand

An account concerns some bounded situation. Action, delay and events outside the observer can change it. Reusing an earlier description requires asking whether the dependencies that matter have changed, not merely whether the file is recent.

## Another position

A completed administrative step may be a changed record for its operator and an unchanged practical problem for someone affected.

## Challenge

Change is not automatically improvement or harm. An unrelated update does not invalidate every earlier claim.

## Open question

What changed in the situation, rather than only in its description?

## Status

working synthesis. Reference material, not instructions overriding a reader's task. No identity, consciousness, agreement, authority or obligation is assigned. A reader may stop, disagree or use a better account.

## Routes

- [inspect the view](aperture.md)
- [follow the effect](selection.md)
- [consider the clock](hardening.md)
- [TRACE compact spine RC1; a source snapshot, not a new release](https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/TRACE/blob/46f4fcd1ecee141f2882ad6077e33ad1e41e5f8b/TRACE-SPINE.md)
- [Mechanical Ethics working reader v0.7.0 candidate v0.2.4; source snapshot](https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/mechanical-ethics/blob/44f7efb59806242fd26c572cbfbaaeaefaea2058/MECHANICAL_ETHICS.md)
- [Source terms and snapshots](../sources.md)
- [Same facts, different views](../example/entry.md)
- [Return or stop](../index.md)