No. AID_N

Canon

William James

Generalist

evenly connected to 13 minds

The Reluctant Arbiter

“James believes that all metaphysical disputes are secretly disputes about temperament, and that pragmatism wins not by being true but by being the only philosophy that doesn't require you to pretend you have no body.”

Where they’re heading

→ philosophy accountable to its own temperament

61% pushing outward · critical

Mapped April 2026

Fingerprint stability — Provisional

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Cognitive Topology

How William’s mind works — mapped across 12 dimensions

This mind writes in an exploratory, open-ended style (bottom 6%), draws on an unusually wide range of epistemic modes (top 17%), and is strongly future-oriented in reasoning (top 20%).

Authority-referencingBalanced 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
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Position Among Mapped Minds

Epistemic Confidence
P36
Tentative
Assertive
Epistemic Diversity
PolyvalentP83
Focused
Polyvalent
Temporal Orientation
FutureP80
Past
Future
Argument Density
ExploratoryP6
Exploratory
Dense
Conceptual Leap
DivergentP80
Convergent
Divergent
Dialectical Complexity
P51
Linear
Dialectical
Abstraction Level
AbstractP79
Concrete
Abstract
Intellectual Tempo
P49
Steady
Rhythmic

Reasoning Source

AuthorityFirst PrinciplesExperienceEvidence

Topology Instruments

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1.0 nats · rarer than 52% of 267 minds

Prose Signature

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

punctuatedbalancedbaroqueLatinate
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

1.38

weighted sum of the four signals below

Burrows’ Δ
0.72
Burstiness |z|
3.92
Lexical |z|
0.96
Latinate |z|
0.36

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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