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.
Original Stories from Real Life
Wollstonecraft's 1788 children's book — moral-educational stories illustrating practical virtues
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Original Stories from Real Life (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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
Original Stories from Real Life
The 1788 publication period of Wollstonecraft's early work; the late-Enlightenment English educational moment.
Space
Original Stories from Real Life
The English bourgeois-educational household; the broader rational-educational reading public.
Matter
Original Stories from Real Life
The embodied children — Mary and Caroline — whose moral education the book narrates.
Observer
Original Stories from Real Life
Mrs. Mason as proper pedagogical-rational figure; the implied reader as proper addressee.
Energy
Original Stories from Real Life
The pedagogical-formative energies of rational-virtue education.
Information
Original Stories from Real Life
The narrative-educational content of the stories and conversations.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Original Stories was widely circulated in the late-eighteenth-century educational market; recent feminist-scholarly attention has substantially elevated its standing as proper early-Wollstonecraft work demonstrating the foundations of her later Vindication.