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.
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The "experiments with truth" — Gandhi's spiritual-political journey from childhood through early satyagraha, the major source for his self-understanding
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Late-mid (looking back over the formative years)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The autobiographical-developmental time of spiritual-political experiment, from childhood through the early Indian campaigns.
Space
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The geographies of the autobiography — Gujarat, London, South Africa, India — as the changing theatres of the experiments.
Matter
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The embodied life of the experiments — diet, celibacy, manual labour, spinning, fasting.
Observer
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Gandhi himself as the singular first-person observer — embodied, narrating his ongoing experiments. Truth (satya/God) as cosmic framework.
Energy
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The personal-spiritual energies of self-discipline, satyagraha, ahimsa.
Information
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
The personal experiments preserved in autobiography; the broader Gandhian tradition's accumulating wisdom.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Gandhi's candid discussion of his sexual life (including the experiments with celibacy and the late-life "sleeping with young women" tests) has been continuously controversial. His treatment of his wife Kasturba and his eldest son Harilal has been criticised. Post-colonial and feminist scholarship has engaged the Autobiography with both appreciation and critique. The relation between the Autobiography's personal-spiritual framing and the broader political achievements (and failures) of the Indian independence movement remains a continuing scholarly theme.