Pith Number

pith:IWGOE2KB

pith:2026:IWGOE2KBU44PDKRWEH57EVQ2QE

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Abduction Without a Body? Representational Grounding and the Abduction Loop for Scientific Hypothesis Generation

Michael Farmer

arxiv:2608.02505 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.AI · cs.CV · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWGOE2KBU44PDKRWEH57EVQ2QE}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T02:43:51.190815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

458ce26941a738f1aa3621fbf2561a811c6cbf2eccd045945e2645c9325a83c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02505 · arxiv_version: 2608.02505v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02505 · pith_short_12: IWGOE2KBU44P · pith_short_16: IWGOE2KBU44PDKRW · pith_short_8: IWGOE2KB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWGOE2KBU44PDKRWEH57EVQ2QE \
  | 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: 458ce26941a738f1aa3621fbf2561a811c6cbf2eccd045945e2645c9325a83c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "505956a25447b408ba9be5337777c6f573fbb961ae06c402f0479e2b1d286a86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T17:05:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "179a0fee40a260272377286de71edb3b7ae9425f97d185dab7018d84acd60543"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}