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.
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
Epoché as philosophical method — the arguments that turned Plato's Academy into the ancient world's foremost school of scepticism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | not engaged |
| Time · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Time · Grain | not engaged |
| Time · Freedom | not engaged |
| Time · Traversability | not engaged |
| Time · Dimensionality | not engaged |
| Time · Direction | not engaged |
| Space · Extent | not engaged |
| Space · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | not engaged |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | not engaged |
| Matter · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Matter · Conservation | not engaged |
| Matter · Dimensionality | not engaged |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | N/A |
| Energy · Extent | not engaged |
| Energy · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Energy · Conservation | not engaged |
| Energy · Dispersibility | not engaged |
| Information · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | not engaged |
| Information · Personal Conservation | not engaged |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
Time receives no positive treatment. Arcesilaus's concern is whether impressions — including impressions of temporal phenomena — can be known to be true.
Space
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
Spatial perception is used as evidence against katalepsis: the tower that looks round from a distance but is square up close. Space itself is not theorised.
Matter
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
Material objects are the typical examples in the argument against katalepsis: identical eggs, identical twins, identical wax seals — if material objects can produce indistinguishable impressions, certainty is impossible.
Observer
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
The observer is the entire focus: embodied, epistemically limited, plural. The wise person's proper stance is epoché. Agency is passive in that the highest wisdom is withholding assent. No cosmic ordering is guaranteed.
Energy
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
Energy receives no treatment in the surviving testimonia.
Information
Arguments and Testimonia (Reconstructed)
All propositional information is uncertain: no impression carries its own certification. The eulogon (reasonable) provides a practical guide to action without epistemic certainty.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The apraxia problem is the central tension: if one suspends judgment on all propositions, how can one act, choose, or live? Arcesilaus's appeal to the eulogon (reasonable) as a guide to action without assent raises the question of whether "following the reasonable" is itself a form of assent, which would undermine the universality of epoché.