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.
A Confession
Tolstoy's 1882 spiritual autobiography — the religious-philosophical crisis at age 50 that drove his later Christian-anarchist work
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | A Confession (Mid) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Singular |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| 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
A Confession
The 1880-82 mid-life crisis period of Tolstoy's religious-philosophical transformation.
Space
A Confession
Yasnaya Polyana and the broader Russian religious-philosophical setting.
Matter
A Confession
The embodied Tolstoy as religious-philosophical subject.
Observer
A Confession
Tolstoy as participant-observer-confessor of his own transformation.
Energy
A Confession
The religious-philosophical-personal energies of the conversion experience.
Information
A Confession
The autobiographical-religious content of the Confession.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
A Confession was banned in Russia by tsarist authorities; the religious-philosophical position Tolstoy developed has been variously assessed — defenders see proper recovery of authentic Christianity, Orthodox critics see heresy.