No. SNKLM

Canon

William Hazlitt

Generalist

evenly connected to 6 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.”

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 10%).

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

Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
TentativeP10
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP77
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
FutureP83
Past
Future
Argument Density
P26
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
DivergentP83
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P56
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
AbstractP76
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P57
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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0.8 nats · rarer than 34% of 229 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

Stylistic Kin

Writers whose sentences move like William’s — by Burrows’ Delta on function-word frequency

William’s Mind

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