Persona Classification Layer
Compare Personas
Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
William James
Pure experience as the neutral fabric — radical empiricism, pragmatic truth, the varieties of religious experience
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | William James |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | implicit |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | implicit |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | implicit |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | N/A |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | implicit |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
William James
Relational and pluralistic — the "specious present" is the centrepiece of James's phenomenology of time.
Space
William James
Relational — the structure of experience.
Matter
William James
Emergent from pure experience under one sorting.
Observer
William James
Both physicality and active agency — the radically-empiricist subject is constituted by relations among experiences.
Energy
William James
Conventional nineteenth-century.
Information
William James
Relational and conserved — Varieties of Religious Experience treats religious experience as durable empirical data.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
The pragmatic theory of truth drew Bertrand Russell's sustained criticism that James had confused warrant for assertion with truth itself.