{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p053","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I can put it even more plainly. Suppose I paint a portrait of a living person, and someone gives as his objective opinion “This portrait is very like the person,” and goes on to explain that this is so because when he compares the portrait with the person, they both look the same. The likeness is due to the fact that the portrait agrees with reality. Does the correspondence to external reality cause the likeness? Why does he say the picture is like the model? Because it corresponds to external reality. The external reality is what is true. Now imagine that the model dies, and we look at his portrait thirty years later. Is it no longer like him, thirty years later, because it does not agree with external reality any more? The person is no longer there. We can assume that he was cremated a long time ago. Does the likeness depend on the external reality being there? Clear thinking knows it does not. In the case of dream-thinking one can say that in order to prove anything one has to be able to point to external reality. But this is only true for dream-thinking, dream-logic. For surely, just because a person passes from existence to nonexistence, a portrait of him does not change from being like him to being unlike him!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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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Und jetzt wollte er mir erklären, warum. Da sagt er nun: Ja, das Porträt ist ähnlich aus dem Grunde, weil, wenn ich das Porträt und den Menschen zusammenstelle, so sieht das eine dem anderen gleich. Die Übereinstimmung mit der Realität macht die Ähnlichkeit. - Die Übereinstimmung mit der äußeren Realität macht die Ähnlichkeit? Warum sagt er: das Bild ist ähnlich? Weil es mit der äußeren Realität übereinstimmt. Die äußere Realität ist das Wahre. Nun denken wir uns, der Mensch, der abgebildet ist, stirbt, und nach dreißig Jahren schauen wir das Porträt an. Ist es nach dreißig Jahren deshalb, weil es nicht mit der äußeren Wirklichkeit übereinstimmt, nicht mehr ähnlich? Der Mensch ist nicht mehr da. Er ist längst, nehmen wir an, verbrannt worden. Kommt es bei der Ähnlichkeit darauf an, ob . die äußere Wirklichkeit vorhanden ist? Bei klarem Denken nicht. Für das Traumdenken kann man sagen, es käme darauf hinaus, irgend etwas zu beweisen dadurch, daß man die äußere Realität aufweisen kann. Nur für das Traumdenken, für die Traumlogik ist das richtig. Denn wahrhaftig, dadurch, daß ein Mensch aus der Existenz in eine Nicht-Existenz übergeht, wird ein Bild, das man von ihm gemacht hat, nicht aus der Ähnlichkeit in die Unähnlichkeit übergehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":318,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p039"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p052","GA 166/1916-02-08/p053"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":318,"en_words":302,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p039"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9740,"original_word_count":9892,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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