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.
Lectures on Psychical Research
Broad's 1962 Perrott Lectures — analytic-philosophical engagement with psychical-research claims
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Lectures on Psychical Research (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 | 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 | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| 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
Lectures on Psychical Research
The 1959-60 lectures moment; the 1962 book publication.
Space
Lectures on Psychical Research
The Cambridge Perrott Lectures setting.
Matter
Lectures on Psychical Research
The empirical phenomena of psychical research as proper-philosophical subject.
Observer
Lectures on Psychical Research
Broad as proper analytic-philosophical investigator.
Energy
Lectures on Psychical Research
The intellectual energies of late-Broad analytic philosophical investigation.
Information
Lectures on Psychical Research
The systematic-philosophical content on psychical research.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Lectures on Psychical Research has been variously assessed — defenders see major late-Broad analytic-philosophical engagement with often-marginalised empirical claims, mainstream-analytic-philosophical critics have largely overlooked or dismissed the work's subject matter.