Neville mentions in passing that he is the father of two children, Victoria and Joseph Neville.
Date (happened)
before 1968
bound · probable
Reasoning
Neville states he is the father of Victoria and Joseph; the completed parenthood predates the telling.
before 1969
bound · possible
Source
qualifying source passages 528485; telling lecture nids 1037
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [528485] belong to telling lecture nids [1037]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 25 November 1966
bound
Source
delivery claim d2 on lecture nid 1037: direct dateline '11/25/66' preserved in node body, certain, state=supported
Why
Supersedes the envelope-derived 'before 1969' bound, which rested on a delivery year the corpus itself only holds at doubtful.
Reasoning
This is Neville describing a present state of fatherhood in a Q&A aside, so the happening (his children's births / his acceptance of fatherhood) necessarily precedes the telling. The telling day is fixed by the transcript's own preserved dateline at certain confidence, tightening the stale year-only 'before 1969' envelope bound (built from the now-superseded doubtful 1969-03-26 catalog claim) to day precision. || v1.1 type repair: written as `estimated` by run v1.1/l4/c0y, retyped `bound` — a `before` claim is an outer limit, which the lane brief and 97% of the corpus type as `bound`.
before 1966
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [546985] belong to telling lecture nids [1857]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1966 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1966 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 25 February 1966
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1966 to before 1966-02-25.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1857 (certain delivery 1966-02-25); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1966`, 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 1966-02-25 on nid 1857 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 1966
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [547663] belong to telling lecture nids [1879]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1966 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1966 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 11 January 1966
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1966 to before 1966-01-11.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1879 (certain delivery 1966-01-11); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1966`, 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 1966-01-11 on nid 1879 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before 1968
bound · possible
Source
qualifying source passages 553432; telling lecture nids 2124
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [553432] belong to telling lecture nids [2124]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Told / reported
28 October 1968
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 544303 in lecture nid 1785 is Neville himself stating he is the father of two, Victoria and Joseph Neville. The lecture is dated 1968-10-28 by a dateline-sourced delivery claim, so the telling inherits that same precision and confidence.
25 November 1966
estimated
Source
nid 1037 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1969-3-26 refuted; 1966-11-25 certain (preferred)
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 1037 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 1037 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1966-11-25 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1969-3-26 refuted; 1966-11-25 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-03-26 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
25 February 1966
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 546985 is Neville affirming, in his own voice, his fatherhood of his daughter Vicki and his son Neville. The owning lecture nid 1857 has two delivery claims that agree: d0 (1966, exact/certain, from his own spoken year) and d1 (1966-02-25, exact/certain, a confirmed chrome dateline narrowing d0 to the day with no contradiction). The telling inherits that same exact/certain precision.
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28 October 1968
stated · probable
Source
Freedom! (nid 2124), telling 2124-0, told 1968-10-28
26 March 1969
stated · refuted
Source
The Eternal Father (nid 1037), telling 1037-3, told 1969-03-26
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1037, 1969-3-26) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1966-11-25. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- The Storm and the Calm ¶7 (I’m the father of two, but they aren’t mentioned in scripture. Victoria is not mentioned and Joseph is mentioned, but his name is Joseph Neville and that is not mentioned.)
- The Eternal Father ¶41 (See, I have in this world two children. At least, they were born by separate women and they told me I sired the child. I believe it implicitly. I really believe that I am the father of my daughter, Victoria, and my son, Joseph Neville, I do, but I have t…)
- Nevilles Thoughts If Leaving Permanently ¶18 (I think I know that I am the father of my daughter Vicki. I’ve never doubted for a second that I am the father of my son that I call Neville, never doubted for a moment.)
- Behold the Dreamer ¶32 (I have two children. I firmly believe that I sired these two children. I have never doubted for one moment I’m the father of these two children on this level.)