The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

words removed
102,275
marks left
17,308
words a sentence
22.2
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: Talks To Teachers On Psychology, William James. More twins

William James on the shelf

5 books by William James are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names William James as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William James's punctuation is closest to Thomas Keightley's.

William James's average fingerprint

William James on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam James's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.37.07.2
Commas73.873.376.6
Colons1.52.11.6
Exclamation marks1.30.92.8
Question marks3.02.33.7
Words per sentence22.221.817.0
Dialogue16%21%22%

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

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