The Critique Of Practical Reason
Play with this page to literally see what was said in the same breath when a given word is used in the book The Critique Of Practical Reason.
How to get the most out of this application:
- Enter or a word (or "regular expression") to locate in the book. This is your query.
- Change the size of the breath to increase or decrease the number of characters on either side of the query where co-occurances will be found. Values between 40 and 80 work well.
- Change the amount of detail to increase or decrease the number of co-occurances to identify for each query. Values between 4 and 7 work well.
- Adjust the breath and detail until the resulting diagram forms simple patterns with very few crossing lines.
The resulting graphic will tell you something about the text, and you will be doing "distant reading".
The visualization is based on the following matrix of terms, starting with and building upon "love":
| law | moral | practical | laws | will |
| love | self | law | will | principle |
| principle | principles | determining | will | practical |
| self | law | reason | practical | moral |
| will | law | principle | determining | pure |
Zoom in and out to see detail. Drag nodes to simplify the diagram. Note enclosed polygons to "read" coherent thoughts. (Matrix)