Pith Number

pith:MFXGAKNG

pith:2013:MFXGAKNGNI3B7HHTCIUP3ZN2SE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Normative Theory of Scientific Evidence

David Sher

arxiv:1304.1142 v1 · 2013-03-27 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFXGAKNGNI3B7HHTCIUP3ZN2SE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:04.389757Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

616e6029a66a361f9cf31228fde5ba913d6cdc5c0cd8311804643f6e59140984

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.1142 · arxiv_version: 1304.1142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.1142 · pith_short_12: MFXGAKNGNI3B · pith_short_16: MFXGAKNGNI3B7HHT · pith_short_8: MFXGAKNG

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/MFXGAKNGNI3B7HHTCIUP3ZN2SE \
  | 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: 616e6029a66a361f9cf31228fde5ba913d6cdc5c0cd8311804643f6e59140984

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1201664c97c89c7ac7118b75aa9e18c0bb89a8e30a10404f31c77dc498914d0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-03-27T14:00:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c440f5621beebf52356ef34a4b7c636caf7999228808b8f3cb7f722f8df5feec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.1142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}