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.
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
Democritus's c. 430 BCE lost cosmological masterwork — foundation of Greek atomism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos) (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| 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 | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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 | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
The c. 430 BCE moment of the foundational atomist cosmology.
Space
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
Abdera and the broader pre-Socratic Greek philosophical setting.
Matter
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
The atomic-material foundation of all phenomena as the cosmology describes.
Observer
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
The natural-philosophical observer as proper subject.
Energy
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
The mechanical-deterministic energies of atomic motion.
Information
The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos)
The atomist-cosmological content of the lost work.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The work is lost; reconstruction relies on hostile-Platonist witnesses, friendly-Aristotelian witnesses, and the doxographic tradition. Modern atomic-physical theory has substantially vindicated the foundational atomist intuition; the philosophical details remain contested.