Neville recalls first telling the story of seeing men as trees walking in San Francisco many years ago, and a lady there telling him it seemed insane.
Date (happened)
before 1900
bound · doubtful
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, many years ago", told in No Other God (nid 1124)" || 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 1968-05-10` bound is appended alongside from the telling lecture (nid 1124). Nothing deleted, no year invented.
before 10 May 1968
bound
Source
bound from the telling lecture nid 1124 (1968-05-10)
Reasoning
The event is told in the past tense in nid 1124, delivered 1968-05-10 (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.
Sources
Source
- No Other God ¶46 (I first told that story in San Francisco many, many years ago. A lady said to me, “Neville, that seems insane.”)