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.
The Real War
Nixon's 1980 Cold War strategy book
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Real War (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Real War
Composed 1979-1980; mid-post-presidential Nixon period; published the year of Reagan's 1980 election victory.
Space
The Real War
San Clemente, California composition; New York publication; subsequent Anglo-American-and-European Cold-War-strategic-policy readership.
Matter
The Real War
Cold-War strategy, Soviet expansion, post-Vietnam American strategic weakness, the executive-presidential authority question, the rebuilding of American military capacity, China-and-allied-cultivation.
Observer
The Real War
Post-Watergate Nixon as ex-president writing for policy-makers and the strategic-policy public; rehabilitating himself as Cold-War strategic thinker.
Energy
The Real War
Strategic-prescriptive, rehabilitative-political, post-Vietnam-restorationist energies.
Information
The Real War
Cold-War-strategic-policy book; combines historical-analytical sections, policy-prescriptive sections, and Nixon-autobiographical reflection on his own China-opening and arms-control work.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Real War articulated much of what became the early-Reagan-administration Cold-War policy consensus. Nixon's post-presidential rehabilitation as 'elder statesman' through this and subsequent strategic-policy books has been variously assessed: as substantively justified by Cold-War-policy contributions, as inadequately reckoned with Watergate moral-legal accountability, or as both.