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.
Edition of Cyprian
Erasmus's 1520 edition of Cyprian
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Edition of Cyprian (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 | 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 | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| 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
Edition of Cyprian
1520 publication; high humanist-Reformation moment immediately following the 1517 Theses; concurrent with Luther's break.
Space
Edition of Cyprian
Basel-Froben publishing setting; transnational Latin-republic-of-letters readership.
Matter
Edition of Cyprian
Cyprian's letters, treatises, De Unitate Ecclesiae, De Lapsis, the African-episcopal correspondence corpus.
Observer
Edition of Cyprian
Erasmus as humanist-philological editor, Catholic-reform-minded, situated outside but engaged with the Reformation eruption.
Energy
Edition of Cyprian
Philological-recuperative, Catholic-reform-irenic, ecclesiastically-controversial energies.
Information
Edition of Cyprian
Critical Latin edition with prefaces; manuscript-collation notes; humanist apparatus.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Erasmus's Cyprian edition has remained important for subsequent Cyprian scholarship and was the textual basis on which the sixteenth-century confessional controversies read the African Father. Cyprian's ambiguity — between Roman-Catholic episcopal-authority readings and Reformation-Protestant scriptural-and-local-church readings — meant the edition supplied weapons to both sides of the ecclesiological dispute. Modern critical editions (CSEL, CCSL) have superseded Erasmus's text, but the Erasmian edition remains a documented stage in early-modern patristics.