Pith Number

pith:JCNZOEZM

pith:2025:JCNZOEZMBREEZQBGFPS4NVRE53

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A not-too-simple solution to Goodman's new riddle of induction in the age of AI

Luigi Scorzato

arxiv:2507.17212 v1 · 2025-07-23 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JCNZOEZMBREEZQBGFPS4NVRE53}

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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	2026-07-05T11:42:03.516281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

489b97132c0c484cc0262be5c6d624eed44f3994aeb40bceaf6c7083067aed74

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.17212 · arxiv_version: 2507.17212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.17212 · pith_short_12: JCNZOEZMBREE · pith_short_16: JCNZOEZMBREEZQBG · pith_short_8: JCNZOEZM

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/JCNZOEZMBREEZQBGFPS4NVRE53 \
  | 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: 489b97132c0c484cc0262be5c6d624eed44f3994aeb40bceaf6c7083067aed74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37ab31f4eed37862cd93985d924be433d020be62575531fd408d266b123008f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-23T05:11:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ccc7a68712c6d414645ae10c2157484513f98f3e9ded3dc11a6bebc5b6fe2c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.17212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}