Nelson Maldonado-Torres’ ‘coloniality of being’ thesis purports to home in on, not social or psychological empirical matters of fact, but a fundamental difference at the ontological level between the way of being of ‘colonized Daseins’ and the way of being of other Daseins. It purports to reveal an ‘ontological colonial difference’, a metaphysical dimension of differentiation among persons distinct from the colonial difference (‘coloniality of power’) and the epistemic colonial difference (‘coloniality of knowledge’).