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.
On Nature (fragments)
The apeiron as origin of all things — the first Greek prose treatise on nature, with its single surviving fragment on cosmic justice
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Nature (fragments) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| 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 | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
On Nature (fragments)
Eternal: the apeiron is "ageless"; worlds arise and dissolve over infinite time.
Space
On Nature (fragments)
Infinite: the apeiron extends without limit; the first scale model of the cosmos.
Matter
On Nature (fragments)
The apeiron is the inexhaustible material source; what emerges returns.
Observer
On Nature (fragments)
Rational inquirer using geometrical analogy and proto-scientific reasoning.
Energy
On Nature (fragments)
The separating-out of opposites from the apeiron implies energetic processes.
Information
On Nature (fragments)
Single surviving fragment; the rest is doxographic reconstruction.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The nature of the apeiron (spatially infinite? qualitatively indefinite? both?) remains debated; the cosmic-justice fragment invites both physical and moral readings.