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The way in which concepts are formed, judgments are formed, conclusions are drawn, all this was first found by Aristotle as a kind of natural history of subjective human thought, and everything we encounter in his work is closely linked to this foundation of the technique of thinking. Since we will come back to a number of things that are fundamentally important in his work for all later considerations, it is now only necessary to make this historical allusion in order to briefly characterize the starting point.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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[Aristoteles ist im eminentesten Sinn Philosoph, weil er mit der bloßen Begriffstechnik das reine Denken herausarbeitete.] Und weil das erst bei Aristoteles der Fall ist, deshalb ist es auch nicht ohne welthistorischen Grund, dass eben er es ist, der die Logik, die Wissenschaft der Denktechnik, begründet hat. Alles andere ist nur Vorläufertum gewesen. Die Art und Weise, wie man Begriffe bildet, Urteile formt, Schlüsse zicht, das alles hat erst Aristoteles als eine Art Naturgeschichte des subjektiven menschlichen Denkens gefunden, und alles, was uns bei ihm entgegentritt, ist mit dieser Grundlegung der Denktechnik eng verknüpft. Da wir noch auf einiges zurückkommen werden, was bei ihm fundamental wichtig ist für alle späteren Betrachtungen, so bedarf es jetzt nur dieser historischen Andeutung, um den Ausgangspunkt kurz zu charakterisieren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":160,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-08-17/p007"}],"english":["GA 246/1908-08-17/p007"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":160,"en_words":177,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7990,"original_word_count":7843,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080817s01.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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