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.
Logical Investigations
The Prolegomena destroys psychologism in logic; the six Investigations begin to lay out the descriptive phenomenology of meaning, perception, and intentional consciousness
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Logical Investigations (Early (the breakthrough work that founds phenomenology)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Logical Investigations
Inner time-consciousness becomes a central theme in Husserl's later lectures (1905); the LI opens but does not yet thematise temporal phenomenology.
Space
Logical Investigations
Phenomenology of perceived space begins here, to be developed in Ideas I and Thing and Space (1907).
Matter
Logical Investigations
The body as the medium of perceptual experience; the LI begins to thematise embodied perception, though embodiment is more fully developed in Ideas II.
Observer
Logical Investigations
The intentional consciousness as the central subject — meaning-conferring, evidence-receiving, self-constituting. Plural, embodied, both active and passive.
Energy
Logical Investigations
Not thematised; the LI is conceptual-philosophical, not physical.
Information
Logical Investigations
Meaning as the primary "information" of consciousness — ideal, available to many thinkers, preserved through expression and memory.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The LI sits between Husserl's earlier descriptive-psychologistic period (Philosophy of Arithmetic, 1891) and his later transcendental phase (Ideas I, 1913; Cartesian Meditations, 1931). Whether the transcendental turn was already implicit in the LI or constituted a real break has been debated since Heidegger. The early Husserlian "realist phenomenologists" (Reinach, Conrad-Martius, Stein) thought the transcendental turn was a mistake; Husserl himself thought the LI insufficiently radical. The relation between Husserl and Frege on psychologism — both attacked it, but on different grounds — remains a continuing scholarly question.