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 Interpretation
Names, verbs, propositions, opposition, and the famous sea-battle argument that haunted Western philosophy for two thousand years
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Interpretation |
|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
| 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
On Interpretation
The sea-battle chapter is the canonical text on open future and the logic of future contingents.
Space
On Interpretation
Newtonian background space; the work's subject is logical-linguistic structure, not physical space.
Matter
On Interpretation
Spoken and written words as the conventional symbols of natural mental affections.
Observer
On Interpretation
The rational speaker-thinker, whose mental affections are the same for all humans (the famous 16a7 claim of psychological universalism).
Energy
On Interpretation
Not addressed; the work is conceptual-logical, not physical.
Information
On Interpretation
Linguistic and logical information; discrete, preserved through inscription and transmission.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The sea-battle problem generates a continuing tension in Aristotelian logic between bivalence (every proposition is true or false) and the open future. Łukasiewicz developed three-valued logics partly in response. The medieval Christian gloss (God's eternal present sees all times) and the Islamic gloss (Avicennan necessity) both close off the openness Aristotle himself seemed to leave. Whether Aristotle is best read as rejecting bivalence for future contingents (the Ackrill reading), or only rejecting their determinate truth-value while preserving bivalence (the Whitaker reading), remains contested.