No. CMT8F
Canon
John Henry Newman
evenly connected to 17 minds
The Transparent Casuist
“Newman's entire intellectual project is a single, lifelong argument that sincerity and doctrinal development are not in tension — but the argument only needed to exist because Newman could never fully convince himself.”
Where they’re heading
→ epistemology of irreducibly first-person evidence
31% pushing outward · critical
Mapped April 2026
Fingerprint stability — Provisional
Based on one sample of writing. The pattern isn’t proven yet — submit another corpus to strengthen it.
Cognitive Topology
How John’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind builds from accumulated frameworks rather than axioms (bottom 0%), grounds arguments in personal experience (top 12%), and stays close to concrete, observable ground (bottom 12%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
0.7 nats · rarer than 27% of 266 minds
Prose Signature
How John’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level
Stylometric Provenance
Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.
Composite distance
2.67
weighted sum of the four signals below
Each instrument measures one axis of stylistic distance from the LLM baseline (n=30). Larger values mean the prose sits further from the baseline centroid. The composite weights function-word distribution at 0.5, the others at 0.2 / 0.2 / 0.1.
Stylistic Kin
Writers whose sentences move like John’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
John’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.