No. SNKLM

Canon

William Hazlitt

Generalist

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

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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%).

Authority-referencing / Experience-drivenBalanced weigherFuture-orientedContrast-aware thinkerTheory-practice bridger
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
William HazlittTed Nolan

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP9
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP75
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
FutureP82
Past
Future
Argument Density
P26
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
DivergentP82
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P56
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
P73
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P58
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

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

expansiveparatacticbaroquemixed
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

1.48

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
1.13
Burstiness |z|
3.59
Lexical |z|
0.51
Latinate |z|
0.92

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

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