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pith:QITRLUQM

pith:2017:QITRLUQMGDI3DSWF3O2IBXTXWY

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Asking Too Much? The Rhetorical Role of Questions in Political Discourse

Arthur Spirling, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justine Zhang

arxiv:1708.02254 v1 · 2017-08-07 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CY · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:38:24.976589Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

822715d20c30d1b1cac5dbb480de77b623c794a6210d7769c7987412186d02f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02254 · arxiv_version: 1708.02254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02254 · pith_short_12: QITRLUQMGDI3 · pith_short_16: QITRLUQMGDI3DSWF · pith_short_8: QITRLUQM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QITRLUQMGDI3DSWF3O2IBXTXWY \
  | 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: 822715d20c30d1b1cac5dbb480de77b623c794a6210d7769c7987412186d02f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T18:00:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83bc422a5f7135922f77991191bd22f6f446d838f959ec8711fc6c5d18bfaacf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}