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.
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
Bohm's 1957 philosophical-physical synthesis — causality, determinism, and chance after quantum mechanics
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Causality and Chance in Modern Physics (Mid) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| 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 | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The mid-1950s post-quantum-revolution scientific-philosophical moment.
Space
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The Brazilian-Israeli-British academic spaces of Bohm's mid-career.
Matter
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The proper-microphysical-causal structures the book treats.
Observer
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The disciplined-physical-philosophical investigator as proper subject.
Energy
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The proper-causal-physical energies of natural processes.
Information
Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
The philosophical-physical content of the systematic synthesis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Bohm's hidden-variable interpretation and the broader anti-Copenhagen position have been variously assessed — defenders see proper realist alternative, mainstream-physics critics have until recently regarded them as fringe; revived scholarly attention from the 1990s onward.