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.
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
The most rigorous Buddhist treatise on logic and epistemology — perception and inference as the only valid means of knowledge, deployed against Brahmanical authority and the permanent self
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition) (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Discrete |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Matter · Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Fallible |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | not engaged |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Energy · Conservation | not engaged |
| Energy · Dispersibility | not engaged |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Non-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
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Infinite samsaric cycle; discrete momentariness (ksanikavada); strict causal determinism.
Space
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Infinite, relational; causal efficacy requires spatiotemporal contiguity.
Matter
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Finite, emergent, non-conserved; material objects are streams of momentary events.
Observer
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Embodied cognitive stream; no permanent self; perception is immediate but inference fallible.
Energy
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Unaddressed in modern terms; momentary causal efficacy (arthakriya).
Information
Pramanavarttika (Commentary on Valid Cognition)
Relational, non-conserved; knowledge is momentary; no permanent knower.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Tension between radical momentariness and the practical requirements of inference across time; apoha theory's reliance on the positive entities it claims to exclude.