{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In our time, the metaphysical legalistic way of thinking has taken such hold upon men that they are wont to think that everything must be comprehended with the Logic of Thought. But that is not the case. Listen to this, for example. Take a cube measuring—let us say—30 centimeters each way. Now if someone were to say to you: “This cube, measuring 30 centimeters each way, is raised up a meter and a half above the floor”—if you were not yourself in the room where the cube is, you would be able with your pure thought-logic to say one thing: you would be able to conclude from what was said to you: The cube must be standing on something. There must be a table there of the corresponding height, for the cube can certainly not hover in the air. This, then, you can conclude even when you are not present there, even when you have no experience of it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-14","location":null,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p007","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181214p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Sehen Sie, wenn Sie einen Würfel haben, dessen Seiten, sagen wir, dreißig Zentimeter lang sind, also einen Würfel, der nach allen Seiten dreißig Zentimeter Ausdehnung hat, und es sagt Ihnen jemand: Dieser Würfel ist in einer Höhe von anderthalb Metern über dem Fußboden hier in diesem Saal zu finden, so können Sie mit Ihrer bloßen Gedankenlogik schließen aus dem, was er Ihnen sagt, ohne daß Sie in dem Zimmer sind, wo der Würfel ist: er muß auf etwas stehen. Es muß ein Tisch da sein, der entsprechend hoch ist, denn der Würfel kann nicht in der Luft schweben. - Also dies können Sie schließen, auch wenn Sie gar nicht dabei sind und Sie nicht die Erfahrung, das Erlebnis davon haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-14/p005"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-14/p006","GA 186/1918-12-14/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":225,"en_words":258,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 186/1918-12-14/p005"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9153,"original_word_count":8380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181214p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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