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.
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Daly and Caputi's 1987 'Wickedary' — radical-feminist dictionary, playful neologistic linguistic-politics
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (Late-middle) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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 | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
1987. Daly was 59, in the period of her most prolific late-career work.
Space
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Boston (Boston College and Daly's home in Newton, the converted-barn residence where she would hold her late seminars).
Matter
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Single radical-feminist dictionary (~280 pages, lavishly illustrated). Form is encyclopedia-dictionary with Caputi's illustrations integrated throughout.
Observer
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Late-middle Daly. The observer-philosopher is the senior radical-feminist philosopher-theologian at her most linguistically inventive.
Energy
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Linguistic-political energies. The book's distinctive force is the combination of philosophical-theological seriousness with linguistic-poetic play.
Information
Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
Single book of ~1500 dictionary entries plus structural-thematic material. The Preliminary Webs (introduction) sets out the philosophical-methodological framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Late-Daly distinctive linguistic-political work. The Wickedary is the most extensive single example of radical-feminist neologistic philosophy in English; the book has been continuously productive in subsequent feminist-philosophical engagement with language (especially feminist-philosophy-of-language and feminist literary theory).