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 Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
Stillingfleet's 1697–98 replies to Locke — the most extensive philosophical exchange of Locke's life
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| 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 | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
1697-98. Stillingfleet was 62-63; the exchange continued until his 1699 death.
Space
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
London / Worcester — Stillingfleet's episcopal residence; Oates (Locke's residence with Sir Francis and Lady Masham, in Essex).
Matter
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
Two large 'Answer' volumes plus subsequent rejoinders (~600 pages total). Form is the characteristic seventeenth-century printed-letter controversy.
Observer
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
Stillingfleet as scholastic-metaphysical critic of Locke's empiricism. The observer is the senior Anglican-theological philosopher engaging the most innovative philosophical work of the post-1690 period.
Energy
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
Sustained controversial-philosophical energies of a four-round exchange. The Locke-Stillingfleet controversy is the most extensive published philosophical exchange of either thinker's life.
Information
The Bishop of Worcester's Answer to Mr Locke
Multiple printed letters published as the controversy unfolded. The exchange shaped Locke's 1700 fourth-edition Essay revisions.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The most sustained scholastic-realist critique of Lockean empiricism in print; primary source for both sides. Continuously discussed in subsequent Locke-scholarship; the metaphysical issues (substance and accident, the cognitive accessibility of substance, the relations between language and ontology) were among the most important seventeenth-century philosophical questions.