He says that the manner through which to locate the Personality is called the Method of Residues. In other words, Personality is whatever is left after the categories of Method, Energy, Space and Time have been defined. More simply, Personality is not Method, Energy, Space nor Time. Matter is defined as method or property or material of the document. For example, a document could have the property of reliability or balance .
Energy is defined as the action of the document.
For example, the document could be about measuring or writing . Space is the geographical location of the document. Time is the time period that the document covers. Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita. Library Classificatio n. 3d ed.