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.
Commentary on the Sentences
Ockham's c.1317-19 Oxford lectures on the Sentences — foundational systematic theological text
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Commentary on the Sentences (Early) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Revelation |
| 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
Commentary on the Sentences
The c. 1317-19 Oxford-period of Ockham's early-systematic-theological work.
Space
Commentary on the Sentences
The Oxford-Franciscan studium of the late-medieval philosophical-religious setting.
Matter
Commentary on the Sentences
The embodied Christian community whose proper systematic theology the commentary develops.
Observer
Commentary on the Sentences
Ockham the Sentences-lector as proper subject.
Energy
Commentary on the Sentences
The intellectual-theological energies of late-medieval Oxford.
Information
Commentary on the Sentences
The systematic four-book content of the commentary.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Ockham's nominalist-theological positions led to his 1324 summons to Avignon to answer charges of heresy; the philosophical-theological positions have remained variously assessed across centuries of Catholic and Protestant theological work.