Pith Number

pith:TRYPMPES

pith:2019:TRYPMPESHKV2A3WFGYJ72VXCPB

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Karl Pearson and the Logic of Science: Renouncing Causal Understanding (the Bride) and Inverted Spinozism

Julio Michael Stern

arxiv:1908.06346 v1 · 2019-08-17 · stat.OT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TRYPMPESHKV2A3WFGYJ72VXCPB}

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:14.853119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9c70f63c923aaba06ec53613fd56e2785abf5a59f07fe97d5eccdcd10fd925da

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06346 · arxiv_version: 1908.06346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06346 · pith_short_12: TRYPMPESHKV2 · pith_short_16: TRYPMPESHKV2A3WF · pith_short_8: TRYPMPES

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/TRYPMPESHKV2A3WFGYJ72VXCPB \
  | 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: 9c70f63c923aaba06ec53613fd56e2785abf5a59f07fe97d5eccdcd10fd925da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1c23cf27b8b424cb3b217e26d1cb9aafa1b8336f01cd9d188e013438192a39f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.OT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-17T23:07:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "244415837e983d6a98036c07822b6ec4071227b6179d491c8c801f6e4d3864b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}