Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Collected Philosophical Papers
Anscombe's 1981 three-volume Collected Philosophical Papers — From Parmenides to Wittgenstein; Metaphysics; Ethics, Religion and Politics
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Collected Philosophical Papers (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Collected Philosophical Papers
1981 publication; papers composed 1953-1981.
Space
Collected Philosophical Papers
Oxford / Cambridge. Anscombe had moved from Oxford to Cambridge in 1970, taking the chair Wittgenstein himself had held.
Matter
Collected Philosophical Papers
Three-volume career collection (~1100 pages total). Each volume groups papers thematically; introduction by Anscombe to each.
Observer
Collected Philosophical Papers
Late Anscombe. The observer-philosopher is the Wittgenstein executor and translator, the senior Catholic-Aristotelian-analytic philosopher of her generation, gathering thirty years of work for the first time.
Energy
Collected Philosophical Papers
Career-spanning energies. The collection spans Anscombe's most productive decades and shows the range of her analytic-Catholic-Aristotelian philosophical work.
Information
Collected Philosophical Papers
Three substantial volumes. 'Modern Moral Philosophy' (vol. 3) is the most-cited individual entry — the founding paper of the late-twentieth-century virtue-ethics revival.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Principal reference work for Anscombe's papers; contains 'Modern Moral Philosophy', the founding paper of the modern virtue-ethics revival (continuously cited; the principal source of the post-1958 shift in Anglophone moral philosophy from utilitarianism/deontology toward virtue-ethical alternatives in MacIntyre, Foot, McDowell, and contemporary Aristotelian moral philosophy).