{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 163/1915-08-23/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have often had occasion to mention the fact that there is a contemporary philosopher by the name of Fritz Mauthner who has written a *Critique of Language*.[^1] This *Critique of Language* was intended to provide our period with something better suited to it than Kant provided for his time with his *Critique of Pure Reason*.[^2] For Mauthner no longer believes—if that expresses it—that people seek knowledge in the form of concepts. It is rather his conviction that it is fundamentally just language to which people attach their insights. He believes that they don't really have true concepts when they are thinking, but merely have what words convey, and that words simply suggest this or that to them. He pictures people as having certain inner experiences in connection with words, putting their faith in words, jumbling them up, putting them together, and deriving insights from these processes. This is a total misconception of the entire cognitive process, but one that was bound to emerge eventually in an age working its way through to the worst consequences of materialism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Probability and Chance, Fritz Mauthner's Studies of Improbability","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-08-23","location":null,"word_count":178,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/163/1915-08-23/p006","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150823p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Denn Fritz Mauthner glaubt - so könnte man das ausdrücken - nicht mehr daran, daß die Menschen ihre Erkenntnisse suchen durch Begriffe, sondern er glaubt, daß es im Grunde genommen nur die Sprache ist, an deren Faden die Menschen ihre Erkenntnisse spinnen, daß die Menschen, indem sie denken, eigentlich nicht wirkliche Begriffe haben, sondern die Überlieferung der Worte, und daß sie bei den Worten gewissermaßen Hinweise haben auf dies oder jenes. Mauthner glaubt, daß die Menschen bei den Worten ein gewisses inneres Erlebnis haben, wortgläubig werden, ihre Worte gewissermaßen zusammenwürfeln, zusammensetzen, und sich Erkenntnisse verschaffen durch dieses Würfeln der Worte. Das ist eine vollständige Verkennung des ganzen Erkenntnisprozesses, aber etwas, was ganz notwendig einmal herauskommen mußte in einem Zeitalter, das so wie das unsere zu der ärgsten Konsequenz des Materialismus sich hindurcharbeitet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-08-23/p004"}],"english":["GA 163/1915-08-23/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":186,"en_words":178,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5067,"original_word_count":5225,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150823p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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