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.
A History of Philosophy
Copleston's 1946–74 nine-volume history — the standard English-language Catholic survey of Western philosophy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | A History of Philosophy (Career-spanning) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | 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 | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| 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
A History of Philosophy
1946–1974 — twentieth-century English Catholic survey of two and a half millennia of Western thought.
Space
A History of Philosophy
England / Rome — Jesuit-academic context.
Matter
A History of Philosophy
Nine-volume historical survey covering Greek, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy.
Observer
A History of Philosophy
Copleston as the implicit Neo-Scholastic evaluator of the tradition he surveys.
Energy
A History of Philosophy
Sustained career-long synthesising labour.
Information
A History of Philosophy
Approximately six thousand pages of historical exposition with extensive bibliography.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The standard mid-twentieth-century English-language history of philosophy; superseded in specifics by later monographs but never displaced as a single coherent survey.