Pith Number

pith:YRIIXTOD

pith:2026:YRIIXTODQ55EYS67CRTJCT3BIX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scientific Explanations in Health Sciences: Causality, Trust, and Epistemic Adequacy

Marcello Pelillo, Martina Mattioli

arxiv:2606.31616 v1 · 2026-06-30 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YRIIXTODQ55EYS67CRTJCT3BIX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-01T01:18:09.321622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c4508bcdc3877a4c4bdf1466914f6145ce5ae5cc7d0c1122fe67050e34542bb9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.31616 · arxiv_version: 2606.31616v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.31616 · pith_short_12: YRIIXTODQ55E · pith_short_16: YRIIXTODQ55EYS67 · pith_short_8: YRIIXTOD

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/YRIIXTODQ55EYS67CRTJCT3BIX \
  | 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: c4508bcdc3877a4c4bdf1466914f6145ce5ae5cc7d0c1122fe67050e34542bb9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c277065a1226bae8fe6559ecbd02240474b73bb23f9356ebb5dc41a888ed8f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-30T13:05:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c960fcfa3596d0544b3d0b60f3d623c31a8a2f443548aa7700eb40e318f0802d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.31616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}