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.
What I Believe
Tolstoy's 1884 systematic exposition — the Sermon on the Mount as the proper foundation of Christian life
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | What I Believe (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 | Revelation |
| 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 | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
What I Believe
The 1883-84 post-Confession period of Tolstoy's systematic religious-philosophical exposition.
Space
What I Believe
Yasnaya Polyana and the broader Russian-international religious-political setting.
Matter
What I Believe
The embodied Christian-anarchist community whose proper life the work specifies.
Observer
What I Believe
Tolstoy as religious-philosophical systematic expositor.
Energy
What I Believe
The religious-political energies of the Christian-anarchist position.
Information
What I Believe
The systematic religious-philosophical content of the treatise.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Tolstoy's Christian anarchism has been variously assessed — defenders (Gandhi, the Catholic Worker, modern pacifist tradition) take it as foundational, critics (Orthodox, mainstream political tradition) see it as both heretical and politically unworkable.