Neville says that if his own assumption were true his wife would know it first, then his daughter Vicki, and describes carrying on the conversation with them.
Date (happened)
4 September 1965
unresolved
4 September 1965
relative · doubtful · preferred
Reasoning
This practice occurs contemporaneously with the telling rather than merely before it. The passage's explicit 'Now tonight' anchors it to the carrier lecture's delivery day. Because that independently derived delivery date is doubtful, the relative occurrence claim retains doubtful confidence.
before 1965
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [528309] belong to telling lecture nids [1034]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1965 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1965 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 4 September 1965
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1965 to before 1965-09-04.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1034 (certain delivery 1965-09-04); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1965`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1965-09-04 on nid 1034 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Told / reported
4 September 1965
stated · doubtful
4 September 1965
estimated · doubtful
Reasoning
Passage 528309 belongs to node 1034. The node's delivery supplies the told date, but because it is node-derived and doubtful, the claim is estimated and doubtful.
Sources
Source
- Order Your Conversations Aright ¶26 (So, I carry on a conversation, first with my wife and then with my daughter Vicki, and then try to make it a lasting conversation so that it becomes a habit.)