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 Cheerfulness
Democritus's c. 420 BCE ethical treatise — euthumia (cheerfulness) as the proper end of human life
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Cheerfulness (Mature) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| 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 | 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 | Singular |
| 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
On Cheerfulness
The c. 420 BCE moment of Democritus's mature ethical work.
Space
On Cheerfulness
Abdera and the broader Greek philosophical setting.
Matter
On Cheerfulness
The embodied human person whose euthumia the treatise pursues.
Observer
On Cheerfulness
The practical-philosophical-ethical subject as proper observer.
Energy
On Cheerfulness
The cognitive-emotional energies of the cheerful soul.
Information
On Cheerfulness
The ethical-content of the treatise as preserved in the extensive fragments.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
On Cheerfulness is lost as a whole text; the ethical fragments, preserved in much greater number than the physical-cosmological fragments, give substantial reconstruction.