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Well, this pragmatism, dear attendees, is characterized above all by the fact that it treats the truth, the concept, the idea of truth itself, in a highly peculiar way. Truth as something that connects the soul with reality, with spiritual reality, is something that this pragmatism, this primeval English product, does not recognize at all. Man perceives truth as an idea, as an idea - in the sense of pragmatism - purely for the purpose of dealing with the external world of the senses, with external tangible reality, in order to intervene in it. In the sense of this pragmatism, truth is a concept that proves useful for practical life. One could say that truth is a tool for usefulness in the very outermost sense, including scientific truth, when understood in this way. Truth has no independent significance, but only serves as a tool for finding one's way in the outer life – that is what this pragmatism has brought forth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. A Consideration Regarding Our Fateful Times","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-02-19","location":null,"word_count":307,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p030","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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Doch davon will ich jetzt absehen, will nur darauf hinsehen, dass in der allerletzten Zeit dieses englische Volkstum, soweit es, insofern es wirklich aus dem britischen Volkstum heraus entstanden ist, zu einer ganz eigentümlichen Richtung geführt hat: Wahrheit, das ist dasjenige, was der Mensch, der einen Sinn hat für Wahrheit, als etwas betrachtet, das innig und intim als eine Wirklichkeit mit der Seele verbunden ist. Sehr verehrte Anwesende: Die Engländer - und in diesem Falle im Einklang mit den Amerikanern - haben ein Weltenbild ausgestaltet, das sie Pragmatismus nennen. Was ist dieser Pragmatismus? Nun, dieser Pragmatismus, sehr verehrte Anwesende, der ist vor allen Dingen dadurch charakteristisch, dass er die Wahrheit, den Begriff, die Idee der Wahrheit selber, in einer höchst eigentümlichen Weise behandelt. Wahrheit als etwas, was die Seele verbindet mit einer Wirklichkeit, mit einer geistigen Wirklichkeit, das erkennt dieser Pragmatismus, dieses urenglische Produkt, überhaupt nicht an. Wahrheit empfindet der Mensch als eine Vorstellung, als eine Idee - im Sinne des Pragmatismus - rein zu dem Zwecke, um die äußere Sinnenwelt, um die äußere handgreifliche Wirklichkeit zu behandeln, um in sie einzugreifen. Wahrheit ist im Sinne dieses Pragmatismus ein Begriff, der sich nützlich erweist für das äußere praktische Leben. Wahrheit als ein Werkzeug zur Nützlichkeit im alleräußersten Sinne, könnte man sagen, auch wissenschaftliche Wahrheit, so aufgefasst. Wahrheit hat keine selbstständige Bedeutung, sondern Wahrheit [dient] nur als ein Werkzeug, um sich im äußeren Leben zurechtzufinden - das ist dasjenige, was dieser Pragmatismus heraufgebracht hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":292,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p030"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-02-19/p030"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":292,"en_words":307,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":14379,"original_word_count":13871,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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