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.
Fragments and Testimonia
The earliest surviving reports of Western philosophy: water as arche, the earth on water, and "all things are full of gods"
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Fragments and Testimonia |
|---|---|
| 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 | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | not engaged |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | not engaged |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | Mediated |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | not engaged |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| 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 | Non-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
Fragments and Testimonia
Eternal natural order implied by water-as-arche.
Space
Fragments and Testimonia
The earth rests on water; the cosmos is spatially extended.
Matter
Fragments and Testimonia
Water as the single material substratum of all things.
Observer
Fragments and Testimonia
The rational inquirer who predicts eclipses and proves geometric theorems.
Energy
Fragments and Testimonia
Transformations of water imply energetic processes; hylozoism suggests intrinsic activity.
Information
Fragments and Testimonia
No explicit information-theoretic doctrine; doxographic tradition preserves only fragments.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The hylozoist fragment sits uneasily with straightforward materialism; Thales's thought is accessible only through later, often interpretive, sources.