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.
On Light (De Luce)
Light is the first corporeal form — the cosmos generated by the infinite self-multiplication of an original point
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | On Light (De Luce) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Both |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Emergent |
| 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
On Light (De Luce)
Both eternal and temporal. The cosmos has a temporal beginning in the creation of the point of light.
Space
On Light (De Luce)
Emergent — this is the treatise's key claim. Space is generated by light's self-multiplication, not pre-existing.
Matter
On Light (De Luce)
Substantival, conserved. Matter exists as the substrate that light informs and extends into three dimensions.
Observer
On Light (De Luce)
Embodied, active, mathematically engaged. Knowledge is built through geometrical and optical demonstration.
Energy
On Light (De Luce)
Emergent — light (lux) functions as primordial energy that generates the cosmos by self-diffusion.
Information
On Light (De Luce)
Conserved. Light is both a physical phenomenon and the principle of intelligibility (continuous granularity).
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The treatise straddles Augustinian Platonism and Aristotelian natural philosophy without fully reconciling them. Light is simultaneously a physical substance and a metaphor for divine illumination. The mathematical argument — that an infinitely multiplied simple substance produces a finite quantity — is asserted rather than demonstrated, and its mathematical validity is debatable.