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.
Code of Hammurabi
"An eye for an eye" — the first great code of written law, balancing divine justice, royal authority, and social hierarchy
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Code of Hammurabi |
|---|---|
| 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 | not engaged |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Providential |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Custom |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | not engaged |
| Energy · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Energy · Conservation | not engaged |
| Energy · Dispersibility | not engaged |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | 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
Code of Hammurabi
Laws inscribed "for future days"; divine-cosmological time is infinite; legal time is linear and precedent-based.
Space
Code of Hammurabi
Territorial extent of the Babylonian empire; the stele as a public monument in physical space.
Matter
Code of Hammurabi
Diorite stele as the most durable material for inscription; practical valuation of material permanence.
Observer
Code of Hammurabi
King as divinely commissioned judge; plural observers in the legal system (witnesses, judges, accusers).
Energy
Code of Hammurabi
Not addressed.
Information
Code of Hammurabi
Laws inscribed in stone for permanent conservation; legal precedent as institutional memory.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Universal justice ("that the strong might not oppress the weak") coexists with class-differentiated penalties. Divine mandate coexists with pragmatic governance.