Neville says that from his own experience David stands before a man and he knows without uncertainty that he is looking into the face of his own son.
Date (happened)
6 December 1959
unresolved
6 December 1959
estimated · probable · preferred
Reasoning
Passage 550808 identifies Neville's experience in which David stands before him and reveals him as Father. Passage 544565 recounts the same sequence in the first person and places David's appearance 139 days after the established 1959-07-20 awakening. The resulting date is 1959-12-06. The episode match is specific and canonical event 7945 independently records the same calculation, but since the day is computed rather than spoken, confidence remains probable. This exact estimate substantively supersedes the coarse delivery envelope.
before 1971
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [550808] belong to telling lecture nids [1983]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1971 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1971 is the MIN across telling lectures.
Told / reported
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18 October 1971
estimated
Reasoning
This telling occurs in node 1983, whose preferred delivery claim is 1971-10-18 exact/certain, directly recovered from the transcript's opening chrome and corroborated by the earlier estimate and catalog year. A told date inherited from a lecture node is typed estimated. This appends the supported full day and correct semantic type, superseding the existing year-only stated told row without editing it. The occurrence date was derived independently and did not consume this carrier anchor.
Sources
Source
- Poor Brother Donkey ¶9 (I tell you from my own experience, the day will come, you will know that you are David’s father.)
Temporal reference
- Imagination's Power ¶39 (139 days after the July 20, 1959 awakening, David appears and calls the experiencer Father)