Pith Number

pith:DYSH3L4Z

pith:2025:DYSH3L4ZYNXFIGMZ7MKMN5JYIJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Empirical structure physicalism and realism, Hempel's dilemma, and an optimistic meta-induction

Balazs Gyenis

arxiv:2507.19834 v1 · 2025-07-26 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DYSH3L4ZYNXFIGMZ7MKMN5JYIJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:43:42.867180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e247daf99c36e541999fb14c6f538427fe3f641de8baaf4c7540bbdf7148f17

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.19834 · arxiv_version: 2507.19834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.19834 · pith_short_12: DYSH3L4ZYNXF · pith_short_16: DYSH3L4ZYNXFIGMZ · pith_short_8: DYSH3L4Z

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/DYSH3L4ZYNXFIGMZ7MKMN5JYIJ \
  | 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: 1e247daf99c36e541999fb14c6f538427fe3f641de8baaf4c7540bbdf7148f17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc6f48f91ebf48f3b79371989157a8d056c69fa723e7620b0437d5eee7fcdb05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-26T07:09:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "502719fb0fa16d12936f23686af0a7faa0044685d0ea07fd3a25986b89989607"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.19834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}