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.
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Jefferson's 1774 pamphlet on the rights of British America — the polemical foundation of his constitutional thought
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| 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 | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
The 1774 pre-revolutionary moment.
Space
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Virginia and the broader colonial-British constitutional setting.
Matter
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
The colonial political community whose rights the pamphlet articulates.
Observer
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Jefferson the political-writer as proper observer.
Energy
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
The pre-revolutionary political energies of the 1774 moment.
Information
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
The constitutional-historical content of the pamphlet.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The pamphlet's appeal to Saxon-historical constitutionalism has been variously assessed — some 18th-c. readers found it too radical, modern historians have variously read it as Whig-romantic or as proto-revolutionary.