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The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-14","location":null,"word_count":76,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p026","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Und wiederum, wenn ich eine Vorstellung, eine Empfindung, ein Gefühl habe, so habe ich nicht bloß die Wahrnehmung, das, was sich abspielt, das Phänomen, sondern ich glaube — obwohl ich weiß nach der Wissenschaft, die ich mir bilden kann, daß das keine Berechtigung hat -, daß drinnen Seele ist und draußen Objekt. Ich fühle mich veranlaßt, das zu unterscheiden. Was ist denn das eigentlich? — Mach sagt sich: Wie komme ich zu solch einer Sache, daß ich ganz plötzlich annehmen muß: da drinnen ist irgend etwas Seelisches, da draußen etwas Außerseelisches. Ich weiß, daß das aber gar keine Unterscheidung ist. Ich werde veranlaßt, etwas anderes zu denken, als was mir meine Wissenschaft sagt — sagt sich Mach zuweilen, wenn er von den Dingen zurücktritt, das steht in seinen Büchern. Er macht dann eine Bemerkung und sagt: Manchmal ist es einem dann so, daß man die Frage aufwirft, ob man denn als Mensch von einem bösen Geiste im Kreise herumgeführt werde? 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