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.
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
The voice of the wandering sage — Pythagorean piety, cosmic sympathy, and the reform of worship, surviving in fragments and the memories of later writers
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Letters (fragments) and Testimonia |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Total |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
Pythagorean cyclical cosmology; transmigration implies multiple temporal instances for the sage.
Space
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
Cosmic sympathy links distant places; the sage's knowledge transcends spatial limitation.
Matter
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
Material bodies governed by immaterial principles; ascetic purification of the body.
Observer
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
The sage is both embodied and capable of supra-bodily cognition; divine knowledge through purification.
Energy
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
Cosmic sympathy implies a universal energetic medium; reversible in the transmigration cycle.
Information
Letters (fragments) and Testimonia
Personal identity conserved across incarnations; the sage remembers past lives.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Historical Apollonius vs. hagiographic portrait; Pythagorean rationalism vs. miracle-working wonder-sage; mostly spurious letters make reconstruction difficult.