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.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Truth is subjectivity — and an objective approach to Christianity is precisely how one misses it
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Concluding Unscientific Postscript |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| 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 | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Eternity intersects time in the moment of decision (the Øieblikket). The existing individual is in time but oriented toward the eternal.
Space
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Not engaged.
Matter
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Not engaged.
Observer
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
The Climacus observer is the single individual whose subjectivity is the medium of religious truth. Active in inward appropriation; embodied; fundamentally singular before God.
Energy
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Not engaged.
Information
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Objective knowledge cannot reach religious truth; subjective appropriation is the only path. Information is relational and existentially constituted. Personal information conserved across death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Postscript's claim that subjectivity is truth has been read as relativism by critics (most notoriously Alasdair MacIntyre in After Virtue) and defended by Kierkegaardian scholars as a sophisticated existential epistemology that does not reduce truth to opinion. The pseudonymous structure complicates direct attribution: Climacus is not a Christian (by his own admission), so the Postscript's position cannot be simply read off as Kierkegaard's own.