Pith Number

pith:L6UBQQ4P

pith:2026:L6UBQQ4PPKNXRRIQNHYFLJ2PTY

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Falsehood and Impossibility Are Different Directions in an AI's Representation of Language

Yoon Pyo Lee

arxiv:2608.12852 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6UBQQ4PPKNXRRIQNHYFLJ2PTY}

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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	2026-08-14T00:49:11.080730Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fa818438f7a9b78c51069f055a74f9e26b8784efd8364abb249490714001bd0

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.12852 · arxiv_version: 2608.12852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.12852 · pith_short_12: L6UBQQ4PPKNX · pith_short_16: L6UBQQ4PPKNXRRIQ · pith_short_8: L6UBQQ4P

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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/L6UBQQ4PPKNXRRIQNHYFLJ2PTY \
  | 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: 5fa818438f7a9b78c51069f055a74f9e26b8784efd8364abb249490714001bd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a53fddf97913a6ccf6f5cd16e673f062812732153eeed1f96429747a8012bce2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T05:52:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9390417a34d066689591930867df0562de8fdeaae87b7c52bd096c402cc62d68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.12852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}