Neville describes his father as a man who began life with nothing — no education, no social or intellectual background — who sat every day in silence with his eyes partly shut seeing what he wanted, raised ten children, and at his death at eighty-five left them a fortune running into millions, while Neville himself never inherited a nickel from anyone.
Date (happened)
23 February 1965
unresolved
23 February 1965
stated · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 037)
Reasoning
Node 3960 merged into lecture 1895, probable delivery 1965-02-23, superseding the stale 1948 estimate.
Told
23 February 1965
estimated · probable
Source
nid 3960 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1948-??-?? refuted; 1965-2-23 probable (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 3960 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 3960 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1965-2-23 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1948-??-?? refuted; 1965-2-23 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1948-00-00 at `certain` (run `v1.1/l4/w1/D2`). 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.
after 1948
estimated · refuted
Source
delivery claim on lecture nid 3960 'The Dreamer' (bound/after/certain, from his father's 1948 first attendance recounted as a completed past event; the lecture also speaks of the father's death, so it postdates that too)
Why
No upper bound is safely inferable beyond the corpus-wide ceiling of Neville's 1972-10-01 death; kept as an open after-1948 bound rather than guessed at.
Reasoning
Passage 556278 is Neville describing on the platform his father's rise from poverty to a family fortune; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 3960) has no exact delivery claim, only a certain after-1948 floor, so the telling is recorded as that same open bound at certain confidence rather than invented as a false-precise date. || v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `certain` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1948-??-?? is refuted on the source lecture (nid 3960) and no live claim on that node supports it, so the corpus can no longer say WHEN this was told. ⛔ The row is KEPT, not retired: it also records THAT nid 3960 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date.
Sources
Source
- The Dreamer ¶8 (And when he died at the age of 85, he could leave a fortune to his ten children. He raised ten children. I never once inherited one nickel from anyone.)