Pith Number

pith:3F6VV4NV

pith:2012:3F6VV4NVR5ZSDQ3IZT2XALW4O7

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Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Aim-Oriented Empiricism

Nicholas Maxwell

arxiv:1208.5219 v1 · 2012-08-26 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3F6VV4NVR5ZSDQ3IZT2XALW4O7}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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2 papers in Pith

Polydoxon Transformations and Scientific Reward in Physics

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:47:00.110953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d97d5af1b58f7321c368ccf5702edc77fcd4c563ee4ed3b278a2a5770767fa33

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5219 · arxiv_version: 1208.5219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5219 · pith_short_12: 3F6VV4NVR5ZS · pith_short_16: 3F6VV4NVR5ZSDQ3I · pith_short_8: 3F6VV4NV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3F6VV4NVR5ZSDQ3IZT2XALW4O7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d97d5af1b58f7321c368ccf5702edc77fcd4c563ee4ed3b278a2a5770767fa33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f298b06215b49191116771bb443f0571876477a57041ba678a4952f34ea3ed3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-26T12:49:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b28bf548d6f2004543e27b17ab80a902c5257e639adbd10e93707f988923e4b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}