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.
Critique of Judgment
Aesthetic judgement and teleological judgement bridge the gap between theoretical reason and practical reason
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Critique of Judgment (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| 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 | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Critique of Judgment
Standard Kantian treatment. Aesthetic experience occurs in time; teleological judgement applies to organic development through time.
Space
Critique of Judgment
Standard Kantian treatment.
Matter
Critique of Judgment
Organic matter exhibits purposive organisation; mechanical matter does not. The third Critique's distinction between the mechanical and the organic shaped subsequent philosophy of biology.
Observer
Critique of Judgment
The Kantian observer of the third Critique is the aesthetic-teleological judger — embodied, plural, capable of disinterested aesthetic appreciation and reflective judgement of nature.
Energy
Critique of Judgment
Not engaged directly.
Information
Critique of Judgment
Aesthetic and teleological judgements are reflective — they bring particulars under universals without determinate concepts. Substantival informational structure of judgement.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The relation between aesthetic and teleological judgement — two apparently distinct topics joined in one work — has been disputed since 1790. Kant himself argues they share a common reflective-judgement structure; subsequent readers split between treating them as genuinely unified and treating them as separate inquiries compiled into one volume.