When he wrote up this vision as a story called "The Search", the person who read his manuscript persuaded him to tell it in the third person rather than as his own experience.
Date (happened)
c. 1946
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
All 4 claims agree on c. 1946: passage:527308; estimated (no source recorded); passage:542796; node:1745.
c. 1946
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 010)
Reasoning
Corroborated independently by event 969 (passage 545691, certain 1964 lecture: 'brought back a manuscript...in 1946...sent it off and it was published') and the frame's certain-dated event 7008 ('Neville writes The Search', 1946); the 'two years before' arithmetic from the doubtfully-dated 1948 lecture agrees with this stronger evidence.
c. 1946
estimated · doubtful
Reasoning
Neville states he printed THE SEARCH two years before this lecture. The lecture's only delivery claim (1948-02-16) is catalogue-only (catalog #3, no independent transcript or other corroboration in the packet), so the anchor itself is doubtful; arithmetic two years back from a doubtful 1948 anchor cannot exceed that ceiling, giving circa 1946 at doubtful.
before 1968
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [542796] belong to telling lecture nids [1745]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1968 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1968 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 25 July 1968
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1968 to before 1968-07-25.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1745 (certain delivery 1968-07-25); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1968`, 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 1968-07-25 on nid 1745 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Told / reported
16 February 1948
estimated · doubtful
Reasoning
The telling of the printing (this passage) belongs to lecture nid 988, whose only delivery claim is catalogue-only with no independent corroboration in the packet, so the telling date inherits that doubtful ceiling rather than the catalogue's stated certain confidence.
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