His friend Mort would smoke past 'No smoking' signs, insisting they did not say 'positively', and walked right through the airport gate with his cigarette without anyone stopping him.
Date (happened)
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [547206] belong to telling lecture nids [1861]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 21 June 1971
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1971 to before 1971-06-21.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1861 (certain delivery 1971-06-21); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1971`, 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 1971-06-21 on nid 1861 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Sources
Source
- Secret Imagination ¶23 (And so he would go right through the gate to the airplane, and I would say, “Mort, you cannot smoke in here. You are not supposed to smoke.” “It didn’t say ‘positively.’”)