In 1933 in New York he went to his old friend Abdullah, with whom he studied Hebrew for five years, full of superstitions - no meat, fish or chicken, no drink, no smoking, trying to be celibate - and Abdullah told him it was all stupid.
Told / reported
23 February 1948
estimated
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 989 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 989 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1948-2-23 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1948-2-23 certain; 1964-2-3 refuted; 1948-??-?? certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1964-02-03 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`).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.
3 February 1964
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 989, 1964-2-3) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1948-2-23. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- Thinking Fourth-Dimensionally ¶34 (It was back in 1933 in the city of New York, and my old friend Abdullah, with whom I studied Hebrew for five years, was really the beginning of the eating of all my superstitions.)