Pith Number

pith:WGG2H5OS

pith:2015:WGG2H5OS2L4F2XN62A3GVJE3LR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism?

Nicholas Maxwell

arxiv:1509.00718 v1 · 2015-09-02 · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WGG2H5OS2L4F2XN62A3GVJE3LR}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:06.264298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b18da3f5d2d2f85d5dbed0366aa49b5c56d870801241c7e113b76b9c88303648

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.00718 · arxiv_version: 1509.00718v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.00718 · pith_short_12: WGG2H5OS2L4F · pith_short_16: WGG2H5OS2L4F2XN6 · pith_short_8: WGG2H5OS

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/WGG2H5OS2L4F2XN62A3GVJE3LR \
  | 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: b18da3f5d2d2f85d5dbed0366aa49b5c56d870801241c7e113b76b9c88303648

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "551d912b7498880db90c9650dbe856f9c5f9f3f2b18b096918fc5e37b30d0f3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-02T14:24:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "088226e47adbb588d05ae846753e4a0e069e9623de36e9f14833a4f790878b44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.00718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}