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.
Prior and Posterior Analytics
The systematic theory of syllogism (Prior) and demonstrative science (Posterior) — Aristotle's major logical works at the heart of the Organon
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Prior and Posterior Analytics |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Prior and Posterior Analytics
The atemporal structure of logical demonstration; the temporal process of scientific inquiry.
Space
Prior and Posterior Analytics
Pre-modern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic spatial framework; the cognitive space of logical-scientific demonstration.
Matter
Prior and Posterior Analytics
Concrete particulars as the objects of demonstrative knowledge.
Observer
Prior and Posterior Analytics
The scientific knower as the rational demonstrator — plural, embodied, capable of demonstrative knowledge.
Energy
Prior and Posterior Analytics
Implicit in the natural-philosophical background.
Information
Prior and Posterior Analytics
Demonstrated scientific knowledge preserved through the deductive structure of demonstration.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Analytics' theory of demonstration has been sharply critiqued in modern philosophy of science (Hume on induction, Kant on the synthetic a priori, Popper's falsificationism, Quine's web of belief). Recent rehabilitations of Aristotelian science (Nussbaum, Lear, Charles) have engaged the Analytics constructively. The relation between the Prior and Posterior — formal logic vs philosophy of science — is itself a continuing interpretive theme.