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.
Philosophical Fragments
Can a historical event be the starting point for eternal consciousness? — Kierkegaard's 1844 fragments developing the question that Concluding Unscientific Postscript will pursue at length
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Philosophical Fragments (Mid (the same productive 1844 as Concept of Anxiety)) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Both |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Philosophical Fragments
The instant — the eternal's breaking into time — as the central temporal category.
Space
Philosophical Fragments
The existential-personal space of the single individual.
Matter
Philosophical Fragments
Embodied existence as the substrate of receiving historical revelation.
Observer
Philosophical Fragments
The single individual receiving revelation — embodied, singular. Personal-providential God as framework.
Energy
Philosophical Fragments
The energy of faith as the existential reception of revelation.
Information
Philosophical Fragments
The historical revelation preserved through the structures of faith and witness.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The pseudonymous authorship — Climacus, not Kierkegaard himself — raises the continuing interpretive question of Kierkegaard's own position. The relation between Philosophical Fragments and the much longer Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) is the central interpretive frame.