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.
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
Bergson's 1907 vitalist philosophy of evolution — the élan vital
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice) (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Plural |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
The evolutionary durée-time.
Space
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
The space of evolutionary unfolding.
Matter
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
Matter as resistance to and condition of élan vital.
Observer
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
The intuitive philosopher grasping life from within.
Energy
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
Central — élan vital as cosmic-evolutionary energy.
Information
Creative Evolution (L'évolution créatrice)
Foundational vitalist-evolutionary framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Bergson's vitalism declined in mid-20th c. but profoundly influenced Whitehead, Deleuze, Teilhard de Chardin.