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 System of Logic
The major nineteenth-century English logic — Mill's 1843 systematic treatise including the famous Methods of experimental inquiry
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | A System of Logic (Early (Mill's first major book, the foundation of his philosophical reputation)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Total |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
A System of Logic
The temporal structure of inductive inquiry — observations accumulate, hypotheses are tested, methods refined.
Space
A System of Logic
The experimental space of scientific inquiry; the social-political space of the moral sciences.
Matter
A System of Logic
The material substrate of scientific phenomena; embodied scientific observers.
Observer
A System of Logic
The empirical scientist as the central observer — plural, embodied, methodologically disciplined. No metaphysical framework imposed.
Energy
A System of Logic
The methodological-scientific energies of inquiry, testing, revision.
Information
A System of Logic
The accumulating scientific knowledge preserved through methodologically rigorous induction.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mill's analysis of the syllogism (it begs the question — the major premise already contains the conclusion) was sharply controversial in its time and remains a continuing question in philosophy of logic. The Mill-Whewell exchange on scientific method shaped subsequent philosophy of science. Mill's Methods remain a standard reference in introductory texts on scientific method, though twentieth-century philosophy of science has substantially modified the framework (Popper, Kuhn, Bayesian approaches).