{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-20/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But the matter has a deeper aspect. One can ask the question: What is the point in the difference between a hundred possible and a hundred actual thalers? I think it would be generally conceded that for anyone who can acquire the hundred thalers, there is beyond doubt a decided difference between a hundred possible thalers and a hundred actual ones. For imagine that you are in need of a hundred thalers, and somebody lets you choose whether he is to give you the hundred possible or the hundred actual thalers. If you can get the thalers, the whole point is the difference between the two kinds. But suppose you were so placed that you cannot in any way acquire the hundred thalers, then you might feel absolutely indifferent as to whether someone did *not* give you a hundred possible or a hundred actual thalers. When a person cannot have them, then a hundred actual and a hundred possible thalers are in fact of exactly the same value.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Thought as Gateway to Cosmic Understanding","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Man kann nämlich die Frage stellen: Worauf kommt es denn an bei dem Unterschied von hundert möglichen und hundert wirklichen Talern? Ich denke, es wird jeder zugeben: Für den, der die hundert Taler haben kann, ist zweifellos ein großer Unterschied zwischen hundert möglichen und hundert wirklichen Talern vorhanden. Denn denken Sie sich, Sie brauchen hundert Taler, und jemand stellt Ihnen die Wahl, ob er Ihnen hundert mögliche oder hundert wirkliche Taler geben soll. Wenn Sie sie haben können, scheint es doch auf den Unterschied anzukommen. Aber nehmen Sie an, Sie wären in dem Fall, daß Sie die hundert Taler wirklich nicht haben könnten; dann könnte es sein, daß es für Sie höchst gleichgültig ist, ob Ihnen jemand hundert mögliche oder hundert wirkliche Taler nicht gibt. Wenn man sie nicht haben kann, dann enthalten tatsächlich hundert wirkliche und hundert mögliche Taler ganz gleich viel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":152,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/151/1914-01-20/p033"}],"english":["GA 151/1914-01-20/p035"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":152,"en_words":168,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 151/1914-01-20/p033"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5201,"original_word_count":5374,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1961","book_title":"Human and Cosmic Thought (1961)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/19140120p01.html","evidence":"edition_cover_credit","note":"The lecture's own page names no translator; the cover of the book it was taken from (https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/HuCoTh_index.html) lists it and names the translator. 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