No. SNKLM
Canon
William Hazlitt
evenly connected to 8 minds
The Refuting Portraitist
“Refutes whole philosophies by drawing the philosophers from life — convinced that a thinker who would mortify habit will be visible in the cut of the coat and the stride of the walk, and that this evidence finally settles the philosophical question.”
Where they’re heading
→ A poetics of legitimate reduction
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 William’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions
This mind builds from accumulated frameworks rather than axioms (bottom 0%), reasons from intuition and structure rather than data (bottom 0%), and holds ideas provisionally, rarely asserts (bottom 9%).
Position Among Mapped Minds
Reasoning Source
Topology Instruments
0.7 nats · rarer than 30% of 266 minds
Prose Signature
How William’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
1.48
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 William’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency
William’s Mind
Weekly digest
Who viewed this fingerprint, and the closest intellectual match that week.