Pith Number

pith:PPC4V5KV

pith:2026:PPC4V5KVHCO5PYZACSWN4VNCFK

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When Certainty Is an Artifact: Keyword Lexicon Blindness and the (Mis)Measurement of Rhetorical Stance

Bo Chen

arxiv:2606.26062 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PPC4V5KVHCO5PYZACSWN4VNCFK}

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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	2026-06-25T01:18:47.477929Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7bc5caf555389dd7e32014acde55a22a8cd6fdded172439a037c9b09b8304bf2

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.26062 · arxiv_version: 2606.26062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.26062 · pith_short_12: PPC4V5KVHCO5 · pith_short_16: PPC4V5KVHCO5PYZA · pith_short_8: PPC4V5KV

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/PPC4V5KVHCO5PYZACSWN4VNCFK \
  | 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: 7bc5caf555389dd7e32014acde55a22a8cd6fdded172439a037c9b09b8304bf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7af2b73d860119cd4dbeef7331ef9fa7852383e4c32409264b42d3a8090319dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T17:36:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5999db3859de99d5835b9ffefa400a9e7ece3c6243b3ec2f4c7ee8aac288f527"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.26062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}