Neville states he is now assuming George has taken the better of the two jobs and will call again to say he could not have chosen more wisely.
Date (happened)
before 1954
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [552685] belong to telling lecture nids [2066]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1954 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1954 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 16 April 1954
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1954 to before 1954-04-16.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 2066 (certain delivery 1954-04-16); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1954`, 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 1954-04-16 on nid 2066 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
16 April 1954
stated
Why
Exact date of Neville's stated present imaginative act; conflicts with prior generic before-telling bounds.
Reasoning
The event is the imaginative act described in present/future wording: 'I will now assume that he has taken the right one.' The act therefore occurs while Neville delivers nid 2066, whose certain delivery date is 1954-04-16. The earlier before-telling envelope treated this forward act as an already true fact and is retained only because v1.1 date claims are append-only.
Sources
Source
- Good Friday / Easter ¶5 (I will now assume that he has taken the right one, the best one, and I know that in the immediate future, George will again call me and tell me that, on reflection, he could not have chosen more wisely.)