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.
Instructions of Kagemni
The quiet man prospers — one of the oldest surviving moral teachings, counselling restraint, modesty, and self-control
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Instructions of Kagemni |
|---|---|
| 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 | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | not engaged |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Providential |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Custom |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | not engaged |
| Energy · Ontological Status | not engaged |
| Energy · Conservation | not engaged |
| Energy · Dispersibility | not engaged |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Instructions of Kagemni
Linear and generational: the old teach the young. Ma'at is eternal; human life is bounded.
Space
Instructions of Kagemni
Finite, socially structured: the court, the table, the tomb.
Matter
Instructions of Kagemni
The body — food, drink, comportment — is the primary site of moral formation.
Observer
Instructions of Kagemni
The pupil learns through mediated instruction; knowledge is partial and must be cultivated.
Energy
Instructions of Kagemni
Not addressed.
Information
Instructions of Kagemni
Wisdom is transmitted from generation to generation through written text; reputation is conserved information.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Social pragmatism versus cosmic moral authority: are modesty and restraint genuinely virtuous or merely expedient for court success? Silence and deference could be wisdom or the ideology of a hierarchical society suppressing dissent.