{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 69d/1913-03-09/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Human beings educate their thinking through the sensory world; it is their teacher. As a result, they do not have confidence in thinking as such, but rather in thinking that is anchored in the external sensory world. From the outset, human beings do not become accustomed to having such an instrument in their thinking that can guide them through all areas of their lives. As a result, they lose their security; they become uncertain when they encounter something that does not come to them in everyday life. And this makes them opposed to spiritual science. That is understandable; as I said, there is nothing to be said about it. On the contrary, our contemporaries cannot make anything of it. But that is because their thinking is trained in the sensory world. It is as if people wanted to enter a world that is not the sensory world. Now, people are trained in the sensory world, which trains their external thinking. This is understandable when areas arise that lie in a different field than what is experienced in external thinking. The one thing they feel confident about, their thinking, becomes shaky in the face of the supersensible world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-03-09","location":null,"word_count":197,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p016","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p016"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p016","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"mixed_sources","scope":"volume","note":"This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). 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Das rührt aber davon [her], dass dieses Denken an der Sinneswelt geschult ist. Es ist, wie wenn der Mensch eintreten wollte in eine Welt, die nicht Sinneswelt ist. Nun wird der Mensch gerade tüchtig an der Sinneswelt, die sein äußeres Denken schult. Das ist deshalb begreiflich, wenn Gebiete auftreten, die auf einem anderen Felde liegen, als was im äußeren Denken [erfahren wird]. Das eine, das Vertrauen in sein Denken, das er fühlt, das Vertrauen wird wankend vor der übersinnlichen Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/69d/1913-03-09/p016"}],"english":["GA 69d/1913-03-09/p016"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":197,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7380,"original_word_count":7148,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Death and Immortality in the Light of Spiritual Science","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA069d/English/SOL2024/19130309p01.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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