No. K5NMU

Canon

Thomas Carlyle

Isolate

genuinely singular

The Vestural Prophet

“insisting that everything visible is clothing, and the real lies underneath — and writing as if prophecy and joke were the same instrument”

Where they’re heading

→ a living grammar of sacred form-renewal

71% pushing outward · constructive

Mapped April 2026

Fingerprint stability — Provisional

Based on one sample of writing. The pattern isn’t proven yet — submit another corpus to strengthen it.

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Cognitive Topology

How Thomas’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind rarely appeals to external authority (bottom 0%), reasons extensively from first principles (top 0%), and relies on impersonal rather than experiential evidence (bottom 0%).

First-principles builderCautiously exploratoryTemporally balancedContrast-aware thinkerConcrete practitioner
Assertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationAssertive: strength of epistemic claims and convictionPolyvalent: holds multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneouslyTemporal: past-anchored ↔ future-oriented thinkingClaim-dense: argument density per unit of proseDivergent: magnitude of conceptual leaps between ideasDialectical: thesis–antithesis–synthesis engagementAbstract: preference for abstraction over concrete detailRhythmic: sentence rhythm and pacing variationASSERTIVEPOLYVALENTTEMPORALCLAIM-DENSEDIVERGENTDIALECTICALABSTRACTRHYTHMIC
Thomas CarlyleJason Yu

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP2
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP83
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
P45
Past
Future
Argument Density
P38
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
DivergentP89
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
DialecticalP75
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P41
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
SteadyP20
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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1.9 nats · rarer than 98% of 266 minds

Prose Signature

How Thomas’s sentences move — measured at the syntactic and lexical level

expansivebalancedbaroqueLatinate
Sentence Length
BriefExpansive
Rhythm Variance
EvenVaried
Lexical Diversity
RepetitiveDiverse
Vocabulary Reach
NarrowWide
Word Length
ShortLong
Latinate Register
AngloRomance
Subordination
ParatacticHypotactic
Punctuation Pulse
CleanPulsed

Stylometric Provenance

Four stylometric instruments measuring how this prose patterns against an AI-generated baseline.

Composite distance

0.90

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.93
Burstiness |z|
1.42
Lexical |z|
0.32
Latinate |z|
0.83

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 Thomas’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency

Thomas’s Mind

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