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.
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
"One yin and one yang — this is the Tao" — the oldest Chinese classic, encoding cosmic process in sixty-four binary figures
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Cyclical |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Providential |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Custom |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
Infinite cyclical process of change; relational (defined by changing states); both determined and free.
Space
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
Relational — heaven and earth as dynamic poles; infinite extent (tianxia); local application in divination.
Matter
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
Relational and conserved: yin-yang transforms but nothing is lost; matter as process, not substance.
Observer
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
The sage reads hexagrams to discern change; mediate knowledge; providential — Heaven bestows the Mandate.
Energy
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
Qi as vital energy: infinite, relational, conserved, reversible (yin and yang alternate).
Information
I Ching (Book of Changes, attributed arrangement)
64 hexagrams as a discrete binary information system encoding the complete pattern of the Tao.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Determinism versus freedom: if hexagrams reveal the pattern of change, is the sage conforming to fate or choosing? Divinatory manual versus cosmological treatise: practical guidance versus universal philosophy.