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.
Purgatorio
The ascent of Mount Purgatory through the seven terraces of capital vice — Dante's most theologically careful cantica
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Purgatorio (Mature) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Curved |
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| 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
Purgatorio
Four days of the ascent; longer purgatorial time of souls being purified.
Space
Purgatorio
Mount Purgatory rising from Southern Hemisphere ocean.
Matter
Purgatorio
Embodied pilgrim; disembodied-yet-corporeally-figured souls.
Observer
Purgatorio
Dante under Virgil's guidance; later Beatrice.
Energy
Purgatorio
Proper-and-improper love organising moral framework.
Information
Purgatorio
Systematic terraced structure; catalogue of capital vices.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Sometimes treated as most accessible cantica, sometimes as most theologically demanding. Modern Dante scholarship has restored Purgatorio to philosophical-theological centrality.