“…The origin of the rule-formulation assigns it a different status as a descriptor of action than any rule-formulation that would have been reflectively created by me, as analyst. With this, we may return to Lähteenmäki's (2003) contention, that when an 'observer' attempts to account for, or describe action employing a rule-formulation, an infinite number of possible descriptions exist (Williams 1991). The biochemist, if asked after the training to provide a descriptive account of his actions, could have formulated a rule for cleaning the cell in an indefinite number of ways, just as I, as analyst, or any member of the spectrographic analysis community, could have.…”