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 the Trinity
The Trinity in itself, the Trinity in the human mind — the most sustained patristic analysis of God as three persons, one being
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On the Trinity (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| 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
On the Trinity
God is eternal in the Boethian sense (anticipated here); created time runs linearly toward the eschaton. The Trinity is timeless in itself; its operations in creation are temporal.
Space
On the Trinity
God is everywhere by essence, presence, and power without being spatially located. Standard Christian-cosmological background.
Matter
On the Trinity
Created good. Not the focus of the treatise.
Observer
On the Trinity
The human mind is the image of the Trinity. Embodied, plural, both active (in reasoning toward God) and passive (in receiving illumination). Knowledge of the Trinity is partial in this life, total in the beatific vision.
Energy
On the Trinity
Standard medieval doctrine of God's continuous sustenance.
Information
On the Trinity
God's knowledge is total and personal. The inscribed record of every creature is in the divine mind. Personal information is conserved across death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Augustinian psychological analogies have been criticised by Orthodox theologians (especially in the twentieth-century retrieval through Lossky and Zizioulas) as anthropocentric and as the philosophical root of the filioque controversy that split the Eastern and Western churches. Modern Catholic theology has engaged this critique seriously (Rahner's Rule, the social-Trinitarian movement).