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.
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
For every argument there is an equal counter-argument — and from equipollence comes suspension and tranquillity
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Outlines of Pyrrhonism |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Immediate |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Non-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
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Time, like every other philosophical category, is subjected to equipollent argument: for every position on time's nature, a counter-position is shown to be equally credible. Sextus suspends judgement; the sceptic follows custom in temporal matters.
Space
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Same treatment: space's nature is subjected to opposed arguments, with no resolution claimed. The sceptic lives in lived space without committing to a doctrine of it.
Matter
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
The ten modes show that the same body appears differently under different conditions. Matter is whatever appears to act on us; what its nature is in itself is suspended.
Observer
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
The Pyrrhonian observer is embodied, plural, passive in the precise sense of not asserting beyond appearance. Knowledge is immediate (appearances are given) but does not extend beyond them. Moral authority is experience and custom. Metaphysical agency is None — Sextus is neither theist nor atheist; both positions are equipollent.
Energy
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Conventional within the framework; not theorised philosophically.
Information
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Information is relational — what appears, to whom, under what conditions. Personal information is not philosophically privileged; the question of personal persistence is one more equipollent dispute to be suspended.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The classic objection to Pyrrhonism is self-refutation: the claim that we should suspend judgement is itself a judgement. Sextus addresses this (I.14) — Pyrrhonian assertions are themselves to be taken as expressions of how things appear, not as dogmatic claims — but critics since Plato's Theaetetus have argued the response is either incoherent or empty. The relation between Pyrrhonism and Academic scepticism is the other major point of dispute.