Pith Number

pith:P5QQO2BT

pith:2024:P5QQO2BT435IBA33LVQ3DGQMXE

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The Paradox of Collective Certainty in Science

Eamon Duede, James Evans

arxiv:2406.05809 v1 · 2024-06-09 · physics.soc-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P5QQO2BT435IBA33LVQ3DGQMXE}

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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	2026-07-05T08:29:33.805325Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f61076833e6fa80837b5d61b19a0cb921f5516a119f62906f137db3d592d504

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.05809 · arxiv_version: 2406.05809v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.05809 · pith_short_12: P5QQO2BT435I · pith_short_16: P5QQO2BT435IBA33 · pith_short_8: P5QQO2BT

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/P5QQO2BT435IBA33LVQ3DGQMXE \
  | 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: 7f61076833e6fa80837b5d61b19a0cb921f5516a119f62906f137db3d592d504

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "955fcdc2550dc1add5482b3043b5d78676f78a2a63abf0556923e8b268499e1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-09T14:50:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a81e9c947de706a3c76453af61f66e1d009a6ddc8a92c88799bfdcff6c70378"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.05809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}