At a dinner party Neville told Aldous Huxley that the biblical characters were not persons; Huxley objected that Caesar and Herod really lived and are mentioned in scripture, and Neville answered that scripture means the Old Testament, in which they do not appear.
Date (happened)
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [538885] belong to telling lecture nids [1385]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 11 October 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-10-11.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1385 (certain delivery 1968-10-11); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, 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 1968-10-11 on nid 1385 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 22 November 1963
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 022)
Reasoning
Huxley is 'the late Aldous Huxley' in passage 538885 and died 22 November 1963, so the dinner party precedes that date; this is a tighter bound than the telling date (1968-10-11).
Sources
Source
- Before Abraham Was, I AM ¶27 (I recall here at a dinner party one night with the late Aldus Huxley. I told him that these characters were not persons, not one of them. “Well,” he said, “Neville, Caesar did live and he’s mentioned in scripture, and Herod lived and he’s mentioned in sc…)