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Indeed, one of the lecture cycles held in Dornach even carries the sub-title, “Presentation of Facts on which to base Conclusions,” or the like. Since this is the case, the results are such as to remove any justification for saying that people were told what to think. For one person will draw one conclusion from my lectures, another a quite different one, and each thinks his is the right view of the matter. Each could be right from where he stands, because I never try to pre-determine the outcome, but simply to provide facts on which conclusions can be based. I thus deliberately expose myself to the danger that a series of facts I am presenting can be quite variously interpreted. For my interest is solely in communicating facts, and anybody who wants to look into the matter will find that the only time I express a judgment is when something needs to be corrected or refuted.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Spiritual-Scientific Judgment and Anthroposophical Consciousness","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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Dezember 1922, so werden Sie finden, daß der hauptsächlichste Inhalt aller meiner Vorträge die Angabe von Tatsachen ist, daß ich Tatsachen vorbringe, Tatsachen der übersinnlichen Welt oder Tatsachen auch wohl, die aus der sinnlichen oder historischen Welt stammen, und daß ich die Darstellung dieser Tatsachen so einrichte, daß auf Grundlage dieser Tatsachen der Zuhörer oder Leser imstande ist, immer sein eigenes Urteil zu bilden, weil ich darauf verzichte, dieses Urteil auch nur im geringsten zu beeinflussen. Einer der in Dornach gehaltenen Vortragszyklen trägt sogar den Untertitel: Darstellung von Tatsachen, die zu einer Urteilsbildung vorgelegt werden — oder so etwa. Weil das der Fall ist, stellt sich ja oftmals etwas ganz anderes ein, als daß man sagen könnte, er hat dieses oder jenes als das Richtige hingestellt. Es stellt sich vielmehr das andere ein, daß der eine sich dieses Urteil, der andere sich jenes Urteil aus meinen Vorträgen herausholt, und jeder glaubt Recht zu haben, hat vielleicht auch von seinem Gesichtspunkte aus Recht, weil es sich mir niemals darum handelt, irgendein Urteil in eine bestimmte Richtung zu bringen, sondern weil es sich mir immer darum handelt, die Tatsachengrundlage zu geben zur Bildung eines Urteils. Ich setze mich daher ganz absichtlich der Gefahr aus, daß der eine in meinen Tatsachenreihen das eine, der andere ein anderes lesen mag. Denn mir handelt es sich wirklich nur um die Mitteilung von Tatsachen, und wer die Neigung hat, die Dinge zu beobachten, wird sehen, daß ich eigentlich nur Urteile ausspreche, wenn es sich um Richtigstellungen oder Abwehrungen handelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/257/1923-01-30/p006"}],"english":["GA 257/1923-01-30/p006"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":336,"en_words":287,"ratio":0.85,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5768,"original_word_count":6276,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1974","book_title":"Awakening to Community","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA257/English/AP1974/19230130p01.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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