GA 3 · Writings

Wahrheit und Wissenschaft (1892)

Truth and Science

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecordedmachine translation

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0030-7 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6280-1 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0031-5 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-6281-8 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
6	2012	142	the publisher's online catalog
	1980		AnthroWiki (German)
	2012		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

10 units in the printed table of contents, about 18,204 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1958.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
VORREDE	text	1271
EINLEITUNG	text	1372
I. VORBEMERKUNGEN	text	503
II. KANTS ERKENNTNISTHEORETISCHE GRUNDFRAGE	text	2157
III. DIE ERKENNTNISTHEORIE NACH KANT	text	2636
IV. DIE AUSGANGSPUNKTE DER ERKENNTNISTHEORIE	text	3052
V. ERKENNEN UND WIRKLICHKEIT	text	2121
VI. DIE VORAUSSETZUNGSLOSE ERKENNTNISTHEORIE UND FICHTES WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE	text	3882
VII. ERKENNTNISTHEORETISCHE SCHLUSSBETRACHTUNG	text	629
VIII. PRAKTISCHE SCHLUSSBETRACHTUNG	text	581

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	10 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	10 the site's completeness audit
Words served	17274 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.95 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1958 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Truth and Science the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page MP1993

Translator	William Lindeman the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Publisher	Mercury Press the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Place	Spring Valley, N. Y. the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1993
Pages	68 the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the 4th German edition of 1958 the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Truth and Science, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, N. Y., 1993, 68 pp., translated from the 4th German edition of 1958 by William Lindeman the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993)
Mercury Press, Spring Valley, N. Y., 1993, 68 pp., translated from the 4th German edition of 1958 by William Lindeman the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

Truth and KnowledgeRudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, N. Y., 1963, 80 pp., translated from the fourth German edition of 1958 by Rita Stebbing. This edition is bound together with The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page RSPI1963

Translator	Rita Stebbing the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publications the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Place	West Nyack, N. Y. the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1963
Pages	80 the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the fourth German edition of 1958 the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Truth and KnowledgeRudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, N. Y., 1963, 80 pp., translated from the fourth German edition of 1958 by Rita Stebbing. This edition is bound together withThe Philosophy of Spiritual Activity., Truth and Knowledge Rudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, N. Y., 1963, 80 pp., translated from the fourth German edition of 1958 by Rita Stebbing. This edition is bound together with The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity . the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963)
Rudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, N. Y., 1963, 80 pp., translated from the fourth German edition of 1958 by Rita Stebbing. This edition is bound together with The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

Truth and Science the edition's imprint line (GA003/SOL2024); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page SOL2024

Translator	John Riedel the edition's imprint line (GA003/SOL2024)
Publisher (from the code)	Steiner Online Library the edition code
Years	2024
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
How made	machine translation with review (DeepL), Steiner Online Library the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations
Rights	in copyright

As the witnesses print it

Truth and Science, prepares the way for Rudolf Steiner's future anthroposophy by clearly and logically presenting the epistemological foundations human cognition.; This translation by John Riedel MD pays particular attention to the use of Germanic-derived rather than Latin-derived words as indicated by Rudolf Steiner in The Genius of Language . the edition's imprint line (GA003/SOL2024)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Truth and Knowledge the SteinerBooks catalog CW 3 the SteinerBooks catalog	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1981	9780893452124	in copyright
Truth and Science the SteinerBooks catalog CW 3 the SteinerBooks catalog	Mercury Press the SteinerBooks catalog	1995	9780936132952	in copyright
Truth and Knowledge - Introduction to The Philosophy of Freedom AnthroWiki (English) CW 3 AnthroWiki (English)	Garber Communications AnthroWiki (English)	1981	0-89345-008-1

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
MP1993	10	1, 6, 3	72	0, 0
RSPI1963	10	1, 7, 2	71	0, 0
SOL2024	11	2, 4, 5	54	1, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German
Part or all of the served English is the Steiner Online Library's machine translation (DeepL with review), in copyright. the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Wahrheit und Wissenschaft (1892) (GA 3), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/3/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/3/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions MP1993, RSPI1963, SOL2024.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_3
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_3 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA003/MP1993): data/steiner-ga/data/GA003/MP1993/00_toc.md · sha256 48351002a22be8f8
the edition's imprint line (GA003/RSPI1963): data/steiner-ga/data/GA003/RSPI1963/00_toc.md · sha256 3ea4709a83087266
the edition's imprint line (GA003/SOL2024): data/steiner-ga/data/GA003/SOL2024/00_toc.md · sha256 1e131cdb47e6e28e
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 664f54db1d4ddc34
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA003/ · sha256 ab79f37355fbdf71
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations: https://rsarchive.org/blog/Translation2024.html · 2024-08-01, clarification 2025-03-18
the library's own account of its translation process
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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