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.
Book of Ruth
"Where you go I will go" — the story of loyal love that made a Moabite woman the ancestor of David and challenged every boundary of belonging
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Book of Ruth |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| 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 | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Virtue |
| 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
Book of Ruth
Linear, generational: from famine to harvest, from bereavement to marriage, from Ruth to David. Free human choices shape the outcome.
Space
Book of Ruth
Finite and local: Moab, Bethlehem, the barley field, the threshing floor, the city gate — each space carries social and legal significance.
Matter
Book of Ruth
Practical and agricultural: barley, bread, grain — chesed is expressed through material generosity.
Observer
Book of Ruth
Embodied human observers navigating social structures with limited knowledge. God acts providentially but silently.
Energy
Book of Ruth
Finite and human: the labour of gleaning, the journey from Moab. No miracles — only human effort sustained by chesed.
Information
Book of Ruth
The genealogy conserves personal information across generations: names, lineages, the chain from Ruth to David.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Deuteronomy 23:3 forbids Moabites from the assembly of the LORD, yet Ruth the Moabite becomes David's ancestor. The book may be a polemic against Ezra's expulsion of foreign wives — if so, dating changes meaning fundamentally.