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.
De Veritate (On Truth)
Anselm's c.1080-86 dialogue — the nature of truth as rectitude
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | De Veritate (On Truth) (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| 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
De Veritate (On Truth)
The 1080-86 mid-Anselm period; Anselm at Bec.
Space
De Veritate (On Truth)
The Bec monastery setting; the early-medieval philosophical-monastic setting.
Matter
De Veritate (On Truth)
The propositions, wills, actions, and beings whose truth the dialogue analyses.
Observer
De Veritate (On Truth)
Anselm and the student as proper-philosophical-dialogue-interlocutors.
Energy
De Veritate (On Truth)
The philosophical-analytical energies of early-medieval scholasticism.
Information
De Veritate (On Truth)
The systematic-philosophical content of the truth-analysis.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
De Veritate has been variously assessed across medieval and modern philosophy — defenders see foundational philosophical analysis of truth, critics maintain rival accounts (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, deflationary) of the nature of truth.