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.
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Servetus's 1531 founding anti-Trinitarian treatise — written aged 20 in Hagenau
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | De Trinitatis Erroribus (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | NDet |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| 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 | Immediate |
| 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 | 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 | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
De Trinitatis Erroribus
July 1531. Servetus was 20 — the book is the work of a young theologian formed by the Reformation moment.
Space
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Hagenau, Alsace (Holy Roman Empire). Servetus had moved from Strasbourg to Hagenau specifically to find a printer willing to publish a heterodox theological work.
Matter
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Seven-book Latin theological treatise (~300 pages in original). Form is sustained scholarly-theological argument with substantial citation of Scripture and Patristic sources.
Observer
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Young Servetus. The observer is the precocious Reformation-era theologian engaging the most fundamental Christian doctrine independently of any established theological tradition.
Energy
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Reformation-radical theological energies. The book combines philological-historical scholarship (Servetus had read widely in Patristic and biblical sources) with bold doctrinal innovation.
Information
De Trinitatis Erroribus
Single seven-book Latin volume. The historical-philological argument (Book I) is the most original and influential material.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Founding modern anti-Trinitarian treatise — set Servetus on the path to Geneva and the stake. The book shaped the subsequent Unitarian-Socinian tradition (Fausto Sozzini, who would die in 1604, the principal Socinian founder, read Servetus); the book's destruction by both Catholic and Protestant authorities is itself a major document of early-Reformation religious-political dynamics.