Many years ago at the Harvard Club in New York, Neville was introduced to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when asked which school he belonged to and answering 'None of these. It came through revelation,' the old gentleman looked at him as at a madman and walked away.
Date (happened)
between September 1922 and December 1950
unresolved
before 29 March 1963
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1092 (1963-03-29)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1092, delivered 1963-03-29 (that claim's confidence: certain, preferred), so it had happened by that date. This is the same premise phase4 L6a and L4.5 rest on, stated at the precision the evidence actually supports rather than as a fabricated year. It replaces nothing: the 1900 placeholder row remains, lowered, as the record of what phase3b did. `bound` is never `preferred`, so this does not change what the event displays.
between September 1922 and December 1950
estimated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 004)
Reasoning
Person's known dates: Damrosch died 22 December 1950; Neville arrived in New York on 25 September 1922 and lived there to 1957; the meeting is at the Harvard Club, New York. Being introduced as 'a great metaphysician' hints at his lecturing years (c. 1939 onward) but the text does not say so.
before 1900
bound · refuted
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 004): Sentinel placeholder year, not a date: 'before 1900' is impossible for an event in Neville's own life (born 1905, in New York from 1922). The honest bound is the telling date.
Reasoning
v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv: type stated -> bound. Convergence of the w1 pass, which split on this exact shape — 25 rows with the 1900 sentinel year and a vague relative note were judged `stated` while 5 identical rows were judged `bound`. The 1900 here is a placeholder meaning "unknown, sometime before the telling", not a date any source stated; Neville was born in 1905, so "before 1900" is not a coherent bound on his own recollections. A claim whose year is that sentinel cannot be `stated`. Note the year itself remains wrong and is out of scope for L0.5, which may touch only `type` and `preferred` — reported separately. Source note as recorded: ""many years ago", told in You Can Forgive Sin (nid 1092)" || v1.1/l1.4/sentinel1900: year 1900 here is not a date. `corpus v1 / phase3b` emitted it as a placeholder for "unknown, sometime before the telling" whenever the speaker used a vague temporal phrase — this row's own source note is the phrase. The same sentinel was identified and converged on in run v1.1/l0.5/retype/w1-conv. It carried confidence `probable`, which no evidence supported. Lowered to `doubtful`; an honest `before 1963-03-29` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1092). Nothing deleted, no year invented.
Sources
Source
- You Can Forgive Sin ¶39 (Well, I was introduced to him as a great metaphysician, and he said to me, “What is your school? Germanic? French?” Well, he named all these different schools of metaphysics, and I said to him, “None of these. It came through revelation.”)