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.
On Floating Bodies
A body immersed in fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced — the birth of mathematical physics
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Floating Bodies |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| 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 | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | not engaged |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | not engaged |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
On Floating Bodies
Hydrostatics is the physics of equilibrium — time is the stable background. Deterministic: physical laws hold necessarily.
Space
On Floating Bodies
Curved: fluid surfaces are spherical (centred on the Earth). Three-dimensional, local, substantival.
Matter
On Floating Bodies
Substantival, finite, conserved: fluids and solids have definite weight and volume; displacement is exact.
Observer
On Floating Bodies
The mathematician-physicist who postulates, deduces, and (implicitly) experiments. Embodied and active.
Energy
On Floating Bodies
The equilibrium principle is an implicit energy-conservation statement: no work is done in hydrostatic equilibrium.
Information
On Floating Bodies
Mathematical truths are substantival, universal, and conserved. Continuous magnitudes throughout.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The idealised fluid (continuous, uniform, perfectly gravitating toward a centre) vs. real fluids. The treatise assumes a spherical Earth but applies to finite containers. The gap between mathematical postulate and physical reality drives all subsequent fluid mechanics.