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.
Choices, Values, and Frames
Kahneman and Tversky's 2000 collection — prospect theory and its extensions across two decades
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Choices, Values, and Frames (Mid) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| 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 | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Choices, Values, and Frames
The 1979-2000 research arc — two decades of prospect-theory development.
Space
Choices, Values, and Frames
The laboratory and the broader decision-environments tested.
Matter
Choices, Values, and Frames
The embodied decision-making humans whose value functions are characterised.
Observer
Choices, Values, and Frames
The choice-making subject as proper topic of behavioural-economic research.
Energy
Choices, Values, and Frames
The cognitive energies of effortful evaluation under risk.
Information
Choices, Values, and Frames
The probabilistic decision-information that subjects evaluate.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Prospect theory has been variously assessed — within behavioural economics it is canonical; expected-utility theorists continue to defend the classical model as normative.