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.
Confessio
"I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned" — Providence working through weakness, captivity turned to mission, faith as the answer to exile
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Confessio |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Both |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Providential |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | not engaged |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Confessio
"Both": created time and God's eternity. Linear, eschatological — Patrick sees his Irish mission as part of the end-times fulfilment.
Space
Confessio
Patrick's captivity and mission make space a lived theological category; God is omnipresent in creation.
Matter
Confessio
Created, good, conserved; the body matters — cold, hunger, rain as spiritual testing ground.
Observer
Confessio
The believer who acts and is acted upon by Providence; God conquers through the weak.
Energy
Confessio
Finite created order sustained by divine power; no independent energy doctrine.
Information
Confessio
Scripture conserves the deposit of faith; the Confessio itself is an act of information conservation.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Rough Latin and self-described ignorance vs. theological sophistication; direct divine communication through visions vs. institutional church authority; the Confessio is partly a defence against critics within the church.