As a small child his father promised him a huge wonderful golden nothing if he would do something; he rushed to do it, heard only the word golden, and was duly given nothing — a lesson that what cannot be discriminated does not exist.
Date (happened)
c. 1910
stated · preferred
between 1910 and 1915
stated · probable
between 1905 and 1921
stated · probable
Told / reported
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30 October 1967
stated · possible
30 October 1967
stated · possible
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 2 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1298 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1298 delivery claims: 1967-10-30 possible; 1967-9-11 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
29 October 1965
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 1216 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 1216 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1965-10-29 at `certain`. All claims on the node: 1965-10-29 certain; 1969-9-26 refuted; 1965-10-29 certain (preferred). Superseded here: delta 0: 1969-09-26 at `certain` (run `corpus v1 / phase3b`).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.
26 September 1969
stated · refuted
Reasoning
|| v1.1/l7/told-close: the delivery claim this was derived from (nid 1216, 1969-9-26) was refuted by the L7 adjudication (#2363). The corrected told claim from the same lecture stands at 1965-10-29. This row is retired rather than deleted so the derivation history remains readable.
Sources
Source
- Your Creative Power ¶35 (I learned that when I was a little child with my father. He would say to me, “Neville, if you do so and so, I’ll give you a huge, big, wonderful, golden nothing.”)
- He Stirs in Me ¶35 (He said, “If you do so and so, I’ll give you a huge, huge, enormous golden”—and he emphasized golden, then he said—“nothing.” We didn’t realize the emphasis was on nothing.)
- Imagining Creates Reality (expanded "What Are You Doing") ¶38 (I recall as a child when my father said to me, “Now if you do so and so, I’m going to give you a huge big golden nothing.”)