{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l16/p009","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human spirit seeks everywhere to go beyond the succession of facts, as mere observation provides him with them, and to penetrate to the *ideas of the things*. Science, indeed, begins at the place where thinking begins. In the findings of science there lies, in the form of ideal necessity, that which appears to the senses only as a succession of facts. These findings only seem to be the final product of the process described above; the truth is that they are that which we must regard, in the whole universe, as the foundation of everything. Where these findings then appear for observation is a matter of indifference; for, as we have seen, their significance does not in fact depend upon that. They spread the net of their ideal necessity out over the whole universe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":135,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1988"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p009"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p009","paragraph_aligned":true}],"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 1/l16/p009","passage_number":9,"text":"Der Geist sucht überall, über die Folge der Tatsachen, wie sie ihm die bloße Beobachtung liefert, hinauszukommen und bis zu den *Ideen der Dinge* zu dringen. Die Wissenschaft fängt eben da an, wo das Denken anfängt. In ihren Ergebnissen liegt das in ideeller Notwendigkeit, was den Sinnen nur als Tatsachenfolge erscheint. Diese Ergebnisse sind nur scheinbar das letzte Produkt des oben geschilderten Prozesses; in Wahrheit sind sie dasjenige, was wir im ganzen Universum als die Grundlage von allem ansehen müssen. Wo sie dann für die Beobachtung erscheinen, das ist gleichgültig; denn davon hängt ja, wie wir gesehen haben, ihre Bedeutung nicht ab. Sie breiten das Netz ihrer ideellen Notwendigkeit über das ganze Universum aus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":114,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p009"}],"english":["GA 1/l16/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":114,"en_words":135,"ratio":1.18,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12330,"original_word_count":10769,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 1/l16/p009"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}