Pith Number

pith:US5R2B6G

pith:2021:US5R2B6GTRSSB5HCUGWNLDUWRL

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How Should AI Interpret Rules? A Defense of Minimally Defeasible Interpretive Argumentation

John Licato

arxiv:2110.13341 v1 · 2021-10-26 · cs.AI · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{US5R2B6GTRSSB5HCUGWNLDUWRL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:25:37.714968Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4bb1d07c69c6520f4e2a1acd58e968ac1bf6daa1ae4b3a98d9ace82950d791e

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.13341 · arxiv_version: 2110.13341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.13341 · pith_short_12: US5R2B6GTRSS · pith_short_16: US5R2B6GTRSSB5HC · pith_short_8: US5R2B6G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/US5R2B6GTRSSB5HCUGWNLDUWRL \
  | 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: a4bb1d07c69c6520f4e2a1acd58e968ac1bf6daa1ae4b3a98d9ace82950d791e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3b81f4b4d5be13d64bfddf2bededb5a186d296e430fc60220ebe3919e0795df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-26T00:58:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6eac8c0c2b48a098aaa120b7a87a6bd2d42d52d58d39592e80369ee62f37da4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.13341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}