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.
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
Ockham's c.1321-24 treatise — divine foreknowledge and creaturely freedom; the foundational late-medieval treatment
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents (Mature) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Plural |
| 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
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
The c. 1321-24 mature-Ockham period; the time-modal framework of the philosophical problem.
Space
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
The Avignon-Oxford-Franciscan philosophical-religious setting.
Matter
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
The embodied creaturely-philosophical inquirer whose freedom the treatise defends.
Observer
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
God as foreknower; the creaturely philosopher as inquirer.
Energy
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
The intellectual-religious energies of the foreknowledge-freedom problem.
Information
Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
The systematic philosophical-theological content on the foreknowledge-problem.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Ockhamist solution remains contested — defenders see proper compatibilist philosophical achievement, critics (Thomist, Molinist, open-theist) maintain rival positions.