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.
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
Confucian classic c. 1000-600 BCE — 305 odes traditionally compiled by Confucius
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Book of Songs (Shijing) (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| 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 | 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Tradition |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The c. 1000-600 BCE Western Zhou and Spring-and-Autumn historical periods.
Space
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The various states of early-Zhou China.
Matter
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The embodied communities — peasant, courtly, sacrificial — whose life the songs preserve.
Observer
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The Confucian reader-singer as proper subject.
Energy
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The emotional-communal-ceremonial energies of early-Zhou life.
Information
The Book of Songs (Shijing)
The 305 odes as poetic-historical content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The traditional attribution to Confucius as editor has been contested by modern critical scholarship; the Songs' compositional history remains a topic of scholarly debate. Foundational role for the Confucian canon is uncontested.