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.
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
Young Franklin's 1728 private religious credo — eclectic-deist articles for his own devotional practice
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
The 1728 moment of young Franklin's religious-philosophical formation.
Space
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
Philadelphia and the private space of Franklin's devotional practice.
Matter
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
The natural-cosmological order that grounds the credo.
Observer
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
Young Franklin as private religious-philosophical thinker.
Energy
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
The intellectual-religious energies of Franklin's young-adult inquiry.
Information
Articles of Belief and Acts of Religion
The credal-liturgical content of the private religious text.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The polytheist hypothesis was discarded in mature Franklin's thought; the document remains a major source for understanding the deist-religious matrix of Founding-American thought.