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.
Judgment Under Uncertainty
Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky's 1982 volume gathering the founding papers of the heuristics-and-biases programme
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Judgment Under Uncertainty (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
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The 1970s experimental psychology programme — Israeli and American academic settings.
Space
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The laboratory and the natural decision-making environments tested.
Matter
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The embodied cognitive processes of human subjects.
Observer
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The experimental psychologist as subject of and to systematic biases.
Energy
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The cognitive energies of judgment under uncertainty.
Information
Judgment Under Uncertainty
The probabilistic information that subjects process — often unfaithfully.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The programme has been variously assessed — Gigerenzer's "ecological rationality" school argues many "biases" are sensible in their natural environments; the heuristics-and-biases tradition has dominated mainstream behavioural-decision research.