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.
Out of My Later Years
Einstein's 1950 late-career essay collection — Princeton years on science, politics, religion, and Zionism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Out of My Later Years (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Curved |
| 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Out of My Later Years
The Princeton years 1933-50 — covering the rise of Nazism, World War II, Hiroshima, the early Cold War.
Space
Out of My Later Years
Princeton as the institutional space; the global political space Einstein addresses.
Matter
Out of My Later Years
The embodied Einstein — physicist, public figure, refugee, advocate.
Observer
Out of My Later Years
Einstein as elder scientific-political observer.
Energy
Out of My Later Years
The political-cultural energies of the postwar world; the destructive energies of nuclear weapons.
Information
Out of My Later Years
The diverse essays and addresses across two decades.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Einstein's postwar political positions (world government, nuclear disarmament) have been variously assessed — as visionary or as politically naive. His scientific positions on quantum mechanics ("God does not play dice") were largely outside the mainstream consensus by 1950.