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.
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Siger's questions on the Liber de Causis — the medieval-Neoplatonic emanational hierarchy treated philosophically
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Quaestiones super Librum de Causis (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Deterministic |
| 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 | 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 | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Limited |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Non-conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
c. 1272-76 — late Siger.
Space
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Paris arts faculty.
Matter
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Quaestiones-form commentary.
Observer
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Late Siger as metaphysical-philosophical commentator.
Energy
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Late-philosophical energies of the Parisian Averroist circle.
Information
Quaestiones super Librum de Causis
Set of questions on a thirteenth-century philosophical bestseller.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Siger's mature treatment of the Neoplatonic-Aristotelian metaphysical hierarchy that underlay much of thirteenth-century philosophy.