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.
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Bohr's 1935 reply to EPR — complementarity and the inseparability of system from measuring apparatus
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (Mid-career, post-EPR) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Bohr's reply submitted 13 July 1935, published 15 October 1935 — five months after EPR's 15 May 1935 publication.
Space
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Copenhagen Institute — Bohr's institutional base. The geographical-political space is pre-war Europe; both Einstein (in Princeton) and Bohr (in Copenhagen) were responding to the philosophical implications of the new quantum mechanics.
Matter
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Single Physical Review paper (~7 pages). Form is technical-physical with substantial philosophical argument.
Observer
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Bohr as defender of the Copenhagen interpretation. The observer-physicist is at the height of his interpretive-philosophical authority over the quantum-mechanical community.
Energy
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
High-stakes polemical-philosophical energies of the EPR moment. The Bohr-Einstein dispute was the central philosophical controversy in twentieth-century physics.
Information
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
Seven-page paper of huge philosophical import. The 'whole experimental arrangement' argument is the central informational structure.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The canonical Bohrian reply to EPR; the origin of the modern philosophical literature on quantum non-locality. Bell's 1964 'On the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox' (which proved that local hidden variables could not reproduce quantum predictions, opening the way to the 1972 Freedman-Clauser and 1982 Aspect experiments) emerged from continued reflection on the EPR-Bohr exchange; the contemporary literature on quantum foundations remains shaped by this 1935 dispute.