Pith Number

pith:5WVHCPG4

pith:2025:5WVHCPG4RY4VFRPCF6KIDALIPG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Communication-First Account of Explanation

Jacqueline Harding, Thomas Icard, Tobias Gerstenberg

arxiv:2505.03732 v2 · 2025-05-06 · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5WVHCPG4RY4VFRPCF6KIDALIPG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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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1 paper in Pith

Why Someone Asked "Why": Foil Inference in Human and LLM Question Interpretation

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-30T01:16:23.131192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edaa713cdc8e3952c5e22f9481816879be9fa6eed210233a720e2566962de03d

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.03732 · arxiv_version: 2505.03732v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.03732 · pith_short_12: 5WVHCPG4RY4V · pith_short_16: 5WVHCPG4RY4VFRPC · pith_short_8: 5WVHCPG4

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/5WVHCPG4RY4VFRPCF6KIDALIPG \
  | 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: edaa713cdc8e3952c5e22f9481816879be9fa6eed210233a720e2566962de03d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e74e44a5446a879f648a96f7a05fc762c0175e8166b2e0249a3be94490ac0df7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-06T17:59:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37834cd737908c612632743f928c35df11459330c848d889a99d512694dc0ab9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.03732",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}