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.
Journal of Researches
Darwin's account of his 1831-36 Beagle voyage — the formative experience of his evolutionary thinking, popularly known as "The Voyage of the Beagle"
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Journal of Researches (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Journal of Researches
The five years of the voyage; the long geological time the observations would let Darwin perceive.
Space
Journal of Researches
The global geographic space — South America, the Galápagos, the Pacific, Australia, Africa.
Matter
Journal of Researches
The embodied Darwin observing; the material specimens collected; the geological-biological objects encountered.
Observer
Journal of Researches
Darwin himself as the formative observer-becoming-scientist.
Energy
Journal of Researches
The biological-geological-ethnographic energies the voyage encountered.
Information
Journal of Researches
The extensive observational record across natural history and cultures.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The book's ethnographic-anthropological material reflects nineteenth-century imperial-British assumptions that subsequent reading has substantially criticised. Its scientific-historical importance is uncontested.