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.
Tomorrow Is Now
Roosevelt's posthumous 1963 testament — the unfinished work of American liberal democracy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Tomorrow Is Now (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 | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Community |
| 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
Tomorrow Is Now
The 1962 last-year moment of Roosevelt's life; the early-1960s American political setting.
Space
Tomorrow Is Now
The American polity and the broader international-democratic setting.
Matter
Tomorrow Is Now
The embodied political community whose unfinished work the testament addresses.
Observer
Tomorrow Is Now
Roosevelt the elder-statesperson as proper testamentary observer.
Energy
Tomorrow Is Now
The political energies of mid-twentieth-century American liberal-democratic life.
Information
Tomorrow Is Now
The political-testamentary content of the unfinished book.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Roosevelt's posthumous testament has been variously assessed — defenders see foundational late-twentieth-century liberal-political statement, critics on left and right have contested specific positions.