Persona Classification Layer
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Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Mary Daly
Be-ing the verb — radical-lesbian feminism as a metaphysical leap out of patriarchal religion
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Mary Daly |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Relational |
| 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 | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Cosmic-ordering |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | Mystical |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Reversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Mary Daly
Relational; the time of Be-ing is the unfolding event of women's self-creation, not patriarchy's linear narration.
Space
Mary Daly
Relational; spaces of women's self-defining community.
Matter
Mary Daly
Substantival but reread; the body as site of patriarchal violation and resource of metaphysical self-creation.
Observer
Mary Daly
Plural; immediate consciousness in self-defining moments. Cosmic-ordering metaphysics of Be-ing.
Energy
Mary Daly
Reversible — the energy of self-creating Be-ing is not entropic.
Information
Mary Daly
Personal soul conserved in the unfolding event of Be-ing.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Daly's late refusal to teach men, her exclusion of trans women from her gender-essentialist account, and the polemical-incantatory late style all sit uneasily with the contemporary feminist scene that succeeded her. The foundational impact on second-wave feminist theology survives the polemics; the later separatism is largely repudiated by current feminist theology.