About fifteen years earlier a friend took Neville to the Bohemian Club and introduced him to Walter Damrosch as a great metaphysician; when Neville said his teaching came from his own visions and not from any school, Damrosch turned his back on him insolently.
Date (happened)
c. 1953
stated · probable · preferred
c. 1953
estimated · probable
Reasoning
'Maybe fifteen years ago' is a hedged relative interval, not an absolute year; 1953 is worked out by subtracting it from the lecture's own year (1968), so it should be typed estimated rather than stated. The result (1953) does not depend on which of the lecture's two candidate October days is correct, since both fall in 1968; only the type needed correcting, not the value.
Told / reported
9 October 1968
stated · doubtful
9 October 1968
stated · doubtful
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1384 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1384 delivery claims: 1968-10-9 doubtful; 1968-10-7 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
7 October 1968
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The stored told claims (d0/d1) both date the telling to 1968-10-09, which is the lecture's weaker, superseded delivery claim (doubtful, catalog-derived, explicitly flagged as questioned by the stronger chrome-sourced claim). The preferred delivery claim for this lecture is 1968-10-07 (probable, chrome byline); the told date should track that claim, not the demoted one. Ceiling is probable, matching the delivery claim this rests on.
Sources
Source
- The Spirit of Truth ¶5 (This chap introduced me to Walter Damrosch as one of the world’s great metaphysicians. Damrosch said to me, “Is it the German school, the French school, the Russian school?” I said, “No, it is simply my own visions. It’s all revelation from within. It ha…)