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.
Siris
Berkeley's 1744 late synthesis — tar-water remedy, immaterialist metaphysics, the Platonic chain of being
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Siris (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 | 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 | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| 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
Siris
The 1744 late-Berkeley period.
Space
Siris
The Cloyne (Ireland) episcopal setting; the broader early-modern philosophical-religious-medical conversation.
Matter
Siris
The material-chemical phenomena (tar-water, etc.) as the ascending starting-point.
Observer
Siris
Berkeley as late-philosophical-religious-medical synthesizer.
Energy
Siris
The chemical-philosophical-religious energies ascending through the chain of being.
Information
Siris
The chain-of-being content of the synthesis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Siris was widely-circulated in eighteenth-century Britain; the tar-water medical claims have not been historically vindicated; the philosophical chain-of-being framework retains its philosophical-religious interest.