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.
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Radical empiricism — experience as foundation of metaphysics, with relations as much given as things related
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Essays in Radical Empiricism (Late posthumous) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Energy · Conservation | Variable |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| 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
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Continuous time of experience as stream; unfinished temporal becoming.
Space
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Relational space — field of overlapping relations.
Matter
Essays in Radical Empiricism
"Pure experience" stuff as underlying neutral category.
Observer
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Experiencing subject embedded in experiential flow.
Energy
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Dynamic energies of experience itself.
Information
Essays in Radical Empiricism
Relations as immediately given as the things related.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
"Pure experience" doctrine variously read — neutral monism (Russell), phenomenology, early functionalism. Relation to James's Pragmatism (1907) is a central problem of James interpretation.