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 Reagan Diaries
Reagan's 1981-89 presidential diaries
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Reagan Diaries (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| 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 | 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 | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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 Reagan Diaries
Diary entries 1981-1989; book publication 2007 (six years after Reagan's 2004 death, before Nancy Reagan's 2016 death).
Space
The Reagan Diaries
White House composition; subsequent Brinkley editing at the Eisenhower Center; transnational subsequent scholarly-and-popular readership.
Matter
The Reagan Diaries
The daily presidential business of the Reagan administration, the four Reagan-Gorbachev summits, domestic policy, the assassination attempt and recovery, family-religious-personal dimensions.
Observer
The Reagan Diaries
Reagan as serving President writing in his own hand; the only twentieth-century American President to keep so extensive a contemporaneous presidential diary.
Energy
The Reagan Diaries
Personal-confessional, presidential-decision-making, late-Cold-War-historical energies.
Information
The Reagan Diaries
Hand-written daily diary entries, typically a paragraph or two; combines policy-business, family-personal, religious-reflective, and ceremonial-presidential material; edited and lightly annotated by Brinkley.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Reagan Diaries significantly altered the historical-scholarly assessment of Reagan toward a more substantive and engaged figure than his hostile-critic caricature had supposed. They remain among the most-consulted primary sources for late-Cold-War American political history.