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.
Outercourse
Daly's 1992 'Outercourse' — autobiography of 'The Be-Dazzling Voyage'
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Outercourse (Late) |
|---|---|
| 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 | Impersonal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| 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 work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Outercourse
1992. Daly was 64 and seven years before her 1999 forced retirement from Boston College.
Space
Outercourse
Boston (Boston College, Daly's institutional base since 1966) and the broader American radical-feminist intellectual community. Daly had retreated by the late 1980s to a more isolated practice — she lived in a converted barn in Newton and held her late seminars there as well as at Boston College.
Matter
Outercourse
Single autobiography (~440 pages). Form is non-conventional autobiographical-philosophical-poetic, organised by 'Spiral Galaxies' rather than chronology.
Observer
Outercourse
Late Daly. The observer is the senior radical-feminist philosopher-theologian articulating her own intellectual development through the lens of the radical-feminist philosophical-linguistic apparatus she had developed across her career.
Energy
Outercourse
Late-autobiographical-radical energies. The book combines confession, polemic, philosophical exposition, and Daly's signature neologistic linguistic-creative work.
Information
Outercourse
Single autobiographical book. The four 'Spiral Galaxies' structure provides the central informational organisation.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Principal autobiographical Daly source. Provides the indispensable autobiographical-narrative context for her philosophical-theological work; the late chapters on the Boston College battle (which would not conclude until her 1999 retirement) are the principal source for Daly's late academic-institutional struggles.