So, meh. We are back to the good old times of "cold reading".

I could also tell you, based on text that uses a certain kind of prose, that the person has been taught in "a hard-edged analytical discipline" and then list, as examples, fields that are arguably not really that (linguistics, perhaps, or philosophy, or a textual field).

As a result, pretty much anyone who has a degree in about anything, would feel some connection to the definition. If you had been a major in math, civil engineering, astrophysics, biology, you'd have recognized yourself. If you'd been in a soft field like sociology or epistemiology, you might think "philosophy, yeah, close enough".

You know what? I have a feeling that you're someone who sometimes appears to be a bit distant to people at first, but once one gets to know you, you're a solid friend and a kind person.

Did I get that right?