Pith Number

pith:N3NJZ2SN

pith:2018:N3NJZ2SNSZ3D23PBNKFK6WBEAS

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A Reliability Theory of Truth

Karl Schlechta

arxiv:1801.01788 v3 · 2018-01-03 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N3NJZ2SNSZ3D23PBNKFK6WBEAS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:19:41.244507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eda9cea4d96763d6de16a8aaf582404b9ed69115a4837f6bbbf6a31d2760b5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.01788 · arxiv_version: 1801.01788v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.01788 · pith_short_12: N3NJZ2SNSZ3D · pith_short_16: N3NJZ2SNSZ3D23PB · pith_short_8: N3NJZ2SN

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/N3NJZ2SNSZ3D23PBNKFK6WBEAS \
  | 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: 6eda9cea4d96763d6de16a8aaf582404b9ed69115a4837f6bbbf6a31d2760b5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aef07929a67552eaa2900793385af8c56d4bffe7191f98638c786816e1b0b7c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-03T14:51:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bc48728e7dfb8834760cf5e271db89fd46f183f3b4acff6b6488146d217aba8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.01788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}