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At first, the person will find that he was mistaken, but little by little he will realize that by doing such exercises, by constructing backwards the causes up to a certain time and then then, by looking at the facts, he will see whether his thinking is based in such a way that it meets reality. After some time, he will see that he thinks from the facts themselves, that they guide him, that he makes the right assumptions.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. The Practical Training of Thinking","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-02-13","location":null,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19090213p01.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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Nehmen Sie an, Sie treten einem ganz bestimmten Ereignis, einer bestimmten Tatsache entgegen; Sie beobachten die Tatsache; ein Mensch tut dies oder jenes. Sie fassen das treu auf, Dann bilden Sie sich folgende Gedanken: Wenn das heute geschieht, so will ich mir an der Hand dieser Tatsache die Vorstellung bilden von dem, was gestern geschehen sein mag als die Voraussetzung zu dem, was heute geschieht. Ich will mir konstruieren im Begriffe, was vorangegangen ist, das heißt, ich verlängere mir die Tatsache nach rückwärts im Begriffe. Und dann gehe ich daran und forsche, wie es gewesen ist. 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