The Critique of Practical Reason

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8,458
words a sentence
44.5
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Novum Organum, Francis Bacon. More twins

Immanuel Kant on the shelf

6 books by Immanuel Kant are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Immanuel Kant as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Immanuel Kant's punctuation is closest to the Venerable Bede's.

Immanuel Kant's average fingerprint

Immanuel Kant on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookImmanuel Kant's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.77.97.2
Commas76.675.176.6
Colons0.91.91.6
Exclamation marks0.00.12.8
Question marks0.40.93.7
Words per sentence44.532.017.0
Dialogue1%4%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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