{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1908-08-17/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This whole conclusion was carried over into the entire thinking of the nineteenth century; not only into epistemology, but also, for example, into the theoretical foundations of physiology. Certain experiences came to the rescue. If we look, for example, at the doctrine of specific sensory energies, it seems to confirm Kant's opinion. At least this is how the matter was viewed in the course of the nineteenth century. It is said thus: The eye perceives light. But if the eye is affected in other ways, for example by pressure, by electrical impulse and so on, it also shows light perception. This is why it is said that the perception of light is generated from the specific energy of the eye and is superimposed on the thing itself. Helmholtz in particular expressed this in a blatant way as a physiological-philosophical doctrine by saying: \"Everything that we perceive cannot even be thought of as pictorially similar to the things that are outside of us. The image has a resemblance to that which it represents; but that which we call sense-perception cannot even have such a resemblance to the original as the image has to its original. Therefore, he goes on to say, one cannot address what man experiences within himself in any other way than as a “sign” of the thing in itself. A sign need have nothing in common with what it expresses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Wenn man zum Beispiel auf die Lehre von den spezifischen Sinnesenergien blickt, so scheint in ihr eine Bestätigung der Kant’sehen Meinung zu liegen. Wenigstens hat man die Sache so im Laufe des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts angesehen. Man sagt so: Das Auge nimmt Licht wahr. Wenn man aber das Auge auf andere Weise affiziert, zum Beispiel durch Druck, durch elektrischen Impuls und so fort, so zeigt es auch Lichtwahrnehmung. Daher sagte man: Die Lichtwahrnehmung ist aus der spezifischen Energie des Auges heraus erzeugt und ist übergezogen über das Ding an sich. Insbesondere Helmholtz hat das in krasser Weise als physiologisch-philosophische Lehre zum Ausdruck gebracht, indem er sagt: Alles, was wir wahrnehmen, ist nicht einmal bildhaft ähnlich zu denken mit den Dingen, die außer uns sich befinden. Das Bild hat Ähnlichkeit mit dem, was es darstellt; aber das, was wir Sinnesempfindung nennen, das kann nicht einmal solche Ähnlichkeit mit dem Original haben, wie es das Bild mit seinem Original hat. Man kann daher, sagt er weiter, das, was der Mensch in sich erlebt, nicht anders ansprechen, denn als cin «Zeichen» des Dinges an sich. 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