{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-11-13/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now whence comes this network of concepts itself? Here that can only be asserted as fact, for the answer to this question can only result as the consequence of the logical path which we shall yet be able to take together. Today I will only give you a picture of this network of concepts, in order to show whence the network, which a man weaves within him, takes it origin. That is best made clear by a shadow picture. The shadow-picture of the hand would never arise if the hand were not there. The shadow-picture resembles its prototype, but it has one peculiarity! it is nothing! Through the fact that in the place of light the non-light comes, through the obliteration (obscuring??) of the light the shadow-picture comes into being.[^1] The concepts arise in exactly the same way, through the fact that behind our thinking soul there stands the super-sensible reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"15. The Theory of Categories","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-11-13","location":null,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/108/1908-11-13/p008","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Answers Provided by Anthroposophy Concerning the World and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA108/English/SOL2024/19081113p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wir können es uns am besten dadurch klarmachen, wenn wir uns das Bild eines Schattens, der an die Wand geworfen wird, vorstellen. Wenn Sie sehen, daß die Hand ein Schattenbild an die Wand wirft, so werden Sie sagen: Wenn die Hand nicht da wäre, so würde auch das Schattenbild nicht entstehen. Das Schattenbild ist seinem Urbilde ähnlich, aber es hat eine besondere Eigentümlichkeit, es ist eigentlich nichts! Denn gerade weil die Hand das Licht abhält, dadurch, daß an die Stelle des Lichtes das Nicht-Licht tritt, dadurch entsteht das Schattenbild. Also durch Auslöschung das Lichtes durch die Hand entsteht das Schattenbild. Genau ebenso entstehen unsere Begriffe in Wirklichkeit. Wir meinen nur, daß wir sie aus uns herausspinnen. Sie entstehen dadurch, daß hinter unserer denkenden Seele die übersinnliche Wirklichkeit steht und auf diese Seele ihre Schattenbilder wirft. Und der Begriff ist eigentlich nichts anderes als das Auslöschen der übersinnlichen Wirklichkeit auf der Wand unserer Seele. Und weil unsere Begriffe den Urbildern der übersinnlichen Welt ähnlich sind - wie das Schattenbild der Hand seinem Urbilde ähnlich ist -, darum sind die Begriffe etwas, was im Menschen eine Ahnung hervorrufen kann von den übersinnlichen Wirklichkeiten. Daß der Mensch meint, das Begriffsnetz aus sich herauszuspinnen, kommt daher, weil er zunächst keine Anschauung hat von dieser übersinnlichen Welt. Aber sie ist da und wirkt, sie wirft ihre Schattenbilder. Wo sie auftrifft auf die Wahrnehmung des Sinnlichen, da entstehen diese Schattenbilder, und die Begriffe sind nichts anderes als diese Schattenbilder. Wir haben also in den Begriffen keine übersinnliche Wirklichkeit, ebensowenig, wie wir im Schattenbilde der Hand die Hand selbst haben, aber wir haben sozusagen Schattenbilder davon. Damit haben wir das Begriffsnetz sozusagen als die Grenze zwischen sinnlicher und übersinnlicher Wirklichkeit definiert, dabei aber erkannt, daß die Begriffe nicht aus der sinnlichen, sondern aus der übersinnlichen Welt in die Seele einströmen. So ist die Tatsache.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":409,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/108/1908-11-13/p009"}],"english":["GA 108/1908-11-13/p008","GA 108/1908-11-13/p009"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":409,"en_words":250,"ratio":0.61,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 108/1908-11-13/p009"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.72,"band":"short","note":"This witness is materially shorter than the original (below 75%). Passages may be omitted without any visible gap. 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